<p>Suppose our unsustainable economy wasn't in the early stages of complete collapse, and that we weren't running out of the cheap energy on which our society totally depends, and that we hadn't so screwed up our environment that we'd precipitated runaway climate change. Everything would be fine, right?</p>
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