[pmulcahy11b]

Those who have been on this board and its predecessor at RPGNet know that I think the world is heading into a real-life T2K situation. The bump in the road is around 2025-2030 (that's one place the T2K13 got it wrong; it should have been T2K30 or so). In short, if we haven't dramatically invested and deployed alternate energy and made some substantial efforts to reduce our carbon footprint, as well as fixed the global economy and found a way to increase our food yield by then, the car that is our civilization is going off a huge cliff and will explode at the bottom. There will be increasingly violent skirmishes starting around 2015 around resources, and by 2025-2030, the entire planet will be fighting over resources, arable and inhabitable land, and what technology is left. Our politicians (worldwide) think only about expansion of industry and special interests; most of them can see only as far ahead as the next election. Our grandchildren will fighting over what's left of civilization and cursing us.