I have an Ag degree ( yeah, I know I drive a semi ). It was often said in class that Ag scientists (insert farmers anywhere you feel comfortable ) held the keys to mans future and I would be well respected and admired for what I would be doing. I learned these fundamentals pretty early on, and I'm pretty sure it was not in college. For several generations now science has been supporting this planet. There are those who will tell you this is not sustainable. There are still others who will tell you this too shall pass, and science will jerk us out of the fire and back into the frying pan.
History would have me believe we will be okay, maybe life will be vastly different, but we will continue to prosper going down different pathways. My observations of the natural world around me leads me to believe that the boom bust cycle cannot be defeated only postponed. There is a bad day coming, the fall will be necessarily brutal. But when?
Alex Jones would have you believe the fall is being orchestrated as we speak. I'm believing more along his line of thought all the time. Much is hyperbole in my opinion. Possibly his extremism is to meant open peoples eyes, and less an accurate portrayal of what the future really holds. I believe the human race will not allow those "power elites" to accomplish their goals, but will in the end reduce the population through simple economic pressures. The localized famines will continue until the logic of population control reaches those localities. Most of the first world communities are reducing their populations on their own. The tough love of allowing the starvation and war and disease has been allowed for quite some time now. It will continue.
