Comments on: Welcome to your crappy low-rent future http://www.fenris.org/2008/03/10/welcome-to-your-crappy-low-rent-future "Baby someone is crazy and it's you" Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:43:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jenqe http://www.fenris.org/2008/03/10/welcome-to-your-crappy-low-rent-future#comment-23417 Jenqe Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:48:23 +0000 http://www.fenris.org/2008/03/10/welcome-to-your-crappy-low-rent-future/#comment-23417 thank you, bro thank you, bro

]]> By: seth vidal http://www.fenris.org/2008/03/10/welcome-to-your-crappy-low-rent-future#comment-23010 seth vidal Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:59:33 +0000 http://www.fenris.org/2008/03/10/welcome-to-your-crappy-low-rent-future/#comment-23010 Unfortunately a number of the problems you've enumerated have no solution, or, more to the point, have no solution that our government will implement. Oil probably won't ever get appreciably cheaper in our lifetimes. You might see things fall back to $90/barrel at some point but it's not going back down to $50/barrel. The supply-side isn't going to get better and demand is going to keep going up provided india and china still exist. Food will get more expensive to the point where we are very likely to have > 30% of the u.s. population "food insecure". That means we'll have roughly 90million people who will not know whether or not they'll be able to afford their next meal. Environmentally we will probably have a massive set of eco-refugees fleeing the coastlines and/or wherever the droughts have ravaged their worst in the next 5-10 years. Barring radical changes the world, for us, won't be getting better. Unfortunately a number of the problems you’ve enumerated have no solution, or, more to the point, have no solution that our government will implement.

Oil probably won’t ever get appreciably cheaper in our lifetimes. You might see things fall back to $90/barrel at some point but it’s not going back down to $50/barrel. The supply-side isn’t going to get better and demand is going to keep going up provided india and china still exist.

Food will get more expensive to the point where we are very likely to have > 30% of the u.s. population “food insecure”. That means we’ll have roughly 90million people who will not know whether or not they’ll be able to afford their next meal.

Environmentally we will probably have a massive set of eco-refugees fleeing the coastlines and/or wherever the droughts have ravaged their worst in the next 5-10 years.

Barring radical changes the world, for us, won’t be getting better.

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