Dear George, you ask me 'what my take' is on the text by Rajani, it is first of al, that, 1) 'this could happen' , there are signs in that direction but 2), that we have to try to avoid or at best minimize, the worst outlooks, which are also politically demobilizing so 3) what if we propose smart mutualization to radically bring the footprint of humanity down, while maximizing the retention of civilizational services 4) crucial to that will be the invention of generative finance, i.e. rewarding regenerative activities rather than extractive ones, I'm working on this via: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hGzAAv9RRiVP3N7yhCDNPUMTYRbW-bQXJT6D3urV... I actually believe the contours of the solution have emerged, Michel -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens