Reply #8: I believe you're correct. Other things that I see developing [View All]

is more cooperation within semi-urban and suburban groups (in a tribal sense). Although the prevailing thought in many doomer-type groups is to purchase a plot of rural land, become a hermit and "ride-it-out" with god, guns and guts, I feel that community gardens and even producing farms on the outskirts of suburban areas will become the rule rather than the exception. I actually see a return of the commons as people die intestate and properties are auctioned off to NFP's. Baring a huge natural catastrophe, the US should be able to maintain some kind of fuctioning society despite the displacement of citizens due to flooding etc. That is not to say that the downward pressures on population won't be severe, but IMO nowhere as bad as in China, India or Africa which despite the prevalent happy talk for the first two - are fucked.