Oldfart,

History teaches me that the way to the future has never been happy. It has always been, is now and ever shall be hard work to order human group behavior. Doing so without lopping off too many heads is even more so.

Steering the various societies through the unavoidable constraints needed to address the climate change our profligate behavior of the last century has brought about will be tricky indeed. I suspect that there will be more than a little chaos.

Yup.