by Patrick Sharkey

Created on: July 10, 2010

Extinction, now it must be said that it is the nature of the universe for things to be created and to be destroyed. So adamant in enforcing this law is the universe that it is as subject as is any other thing within it; the universe itself shall fall, as does every sun, species and and tasty snack.  However it is very easy in the light of the precipice we seem to be balanced upon at the moment across the globe that extinction is inevitable as the next major step in humanity, that when the collapse comes, which it certainly will, that this will be the final collapse. 

Now, we are in the last stages of our society as we know it now.  Western society and the globalisation it has spread throughout the world has grown too quickly and to greatly and continues to do so beyond its means, and is now grasping at sustenance like a gibbon plummeting through a canope.  We suck the world dry.  We are involved in wars which, though debatably, are pretty much about oil and the imposing of "disaster capitalism" which has been coined by Naomi Klein in "The Shock Doctrine".  Here she spells how that a government will go in blazing the banner of free enterprise, set up free enterprise and then capitalise on it before the locals get a chance.  In the middle east we have this and also greater oil reserves as a result.  This is just one way in which we exploit the world to strengthen our economy, and specifically with the middle easy keep our resources flowing. Otherwise it may be children and families making Nike's, it may be people tilling soil for their next meal in the baking hot African sun so we can be stocked up on chocolate and coffee.  Our luxuries, upon which our economy has come to depend on, comes at the expense of the comfort of other nations.  

So, we are now on the verge of collapse it seems, that what happens when say, the oil runs out, planes stop flying, boats stop running, life can't move fast enough to provide all the people it needs to provide.  Economy collapses, inflation soars, food becomes scarce to the millions in the concrete jungles of cities, police and doctors are paid to little to care and enter the survival trip with the rest of us; the concept of their "job"going the way of stability.  We enter a time of famine, pesitlence, disease, lawlessness and other grim reapers of nature.

This is the worst case scenario, and is incredibly likely to happen in some drastically destructive capacity, at

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