[Pirates Armada]

i read it. the industrial revolution is on the downswing, it hit it's peak already in most cases. he is right about it adversly effecting people in hard to notice ways but most of all it's damaging the enviornment. lives will also be effected greatly in these industrial hot spots when this downswing continues in the right direction which is down. that is why self containment and tech in this field interests me. it would seem as the next logical step rather then become more and more just some number in a futuristic downsized society to combat global problems. the problems from lives failing because of this "over population problem" from the enviornment being destroyed to the industrial downsizing could be real ugly on the street level. we came from nature so if we can't tend to it proper or get to far away from it then i believe yes the balance is off like sushil suggests.