This may be true, but I am very suspicious of techno-fixes such as Thorium — or boosted investments in nuclear power — to keep our industrial infrastructure going at any cost. There are far too many risks of proliferation See https://wiseinternational.org/nuclear-energy/thorium-new-and-improved-nuclear-energy?gclid=Cj0KCQjwwb3rBRDrARIsALR3XeZYEbtrsx3ITj4FtyJUI8ogirQoqZq0N8CG7ulEo5i3P0dVkyHPTY8aAk94EALw_wcB

…and obviously, with climate disruption coming on strong already, we do not have anything like 100 years to wait. I rather fear that our current global industrial-consumer economic infrastructure is inexorably doomed to incremental, but gradually accelerating collapse, worldwide. It is simply not sustainable on a finite, overheated planet with a disintegrating biological support system. The result, I fear, will be chaos, panic, crazy border wars for vanishing resources, and social disintegration — starting in the most afflicted global south, but swiftly spreading to the industrialized north as well. Mass starvation and die-off could easily follow. So the question is — sadly — no longer “how can we avert this?” as much as it is, “Who will survive it, and how?” Most likely these will fall into three general categories:

(1) the Super-Rich (the “owners”) who will barricade themselves within fiercely defended cocoons of wealth and privilege to fend off the encroaching chaos and violence — until the money system disintegrates and their vast savings and investments lose all value and are revealed to be illusory;

(2) the marauders — vicious, self-organizing roving gangs swarming the landscape heavily armed with every weapon they can steal, their ranks inflated by discharged and demoralized soldiers — killing each other and anyone else who stands in their way, stealing everything they can, and devoid of any morality other than fierce loyalty to their own tribal warlords. Many will be in the employ, explicitly or implicitly, of despotic regimes consolidating their power in a generalized war of all against all for land, water, and the other resources they need to survive.

(3) Maybe — just maybe — those scattered few who learn the arts of regenerative agriculture and build mutually supportive communities, restoring topsoil, conserving local water and energy, breeding resilient cultivars of diverse food crops, and emulating natural ecosystems in whatever way they can.

Our long-term survival as a species — if possible — depends above all on how many such contiguous, self-supporting communities of Permaculturalists we can propagate now, to devise a symbiotic, rather than parasitic relationship to our biological support system, before our global industrial infrastructure spirals down into chaos, violence, and death…