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[CRH]

in my opinion would only stress all else on the planet more.

Humans have never conquered desire; desire for more, bigger, better. Enough is never enough. McMansions replaced houses with three car garages and a pad for the boat. Whole forests have disappeared because redwood shingles became a fad.

Humans have never traveled beyond their egotistical belief in superiority to all other forms of life. Humans have not as a specie, realized their inter dependence, with the environment that supports their existence. Humans have never realized they are but a small part of a much larger whole. In the numbers humans are occupying this planet, it won't take much longer to destroy the balance beyond natural repair.

90% of the fish have been harvested from the oceans in just fifty years, massive deforestation, fresh water depletion, I could go on and on. No, beyond energy and population overshoot, humans have a huge egotistical problem as a specie, and an 'I want more' problem as individuals. Sharing has never been able to compete with power and possession.

As far as socio/political landscape after depopulation, feudalism. Protection of the weak in exchange for the labors of serfdom. Wealth measured in the strength of a private army, protecting the bounty of labors as the property of a few. Society to society, a test of survival of the fittest, with cooperation most often motivated when in peril of larger foes, whether economic or human in origin.

Does glider guider mean you are a pilot of serene flight. I have some pleasant memories of soaring though the sky feeling free from the travails of life. Talk about high, oh my.