The end of progress?
I want to believe that an article I read (link below) is all doomsaying, but part of me has wondered similar things before. The key is that he says we are now hoping that things will work out when reason says the situation is bad. Previous doomsayers believed the situation was bad, but reason showed things were okay.
Or, will an article like this spur us on to make changes now, so that, like Elrich’s works, this is not the scenario that happens in the end?
A long, but thoughful read: Waiting for the lights to go out by Bryan Appleyard at the Sunday Times (UK).