Steve added quietly that this collapse towards nothing is already happening almost universally. "The countdown has begun," he said. "The train has left the station. It's rolling. If it isn't stopped we can kiss our chances for an Ice Age Renaissance goodbye. In order to be able to survive the Ice Age transition we will have to enter the Ice Age with the most powerful economy imaginable, an economy that has the capacity to put 99% of the world's agriculture into indoor facilities in a hundred years time. For this we need to change our perception about what an economy is, and what wealth is. We have to scrap the notion of creating millionaires and billionaires and trillionaires as we may have some day soon, which are people that have become spectacularly successful in stealing from society and destroying people's living. What we've come to call wealth in the modern world bears the face of fascism. We have to turn this around. We have to create a sense of economy that enables all people to live, and to live richly productive lives, both in terms of enriching society for the universal good, and in terms of people's own living and their development as human beings that unfolds into happiness. We need to develop universal wealth by unlocking the human potential, not privatized wealth that kills the human potential. We must do this, because this universal wealth is needed to upgrade the physical landscape of the global economy to such a point that indoor agriculture can be created as a side-product while society's increasing needs are also being met. No more than 10% of the economic product of society can be devoted to this goal, no matter how urgent it is, or else we won't reach the goal at all. We need to create brand new cities designed for efficient living. We need those new cities in order to develop the creative and productive potential that enables mankind as a whole to meet the Ice Age challenge. Without this kind of ever-growing universal investment into ourselves as human beings, rather than as slaves, the necessary productive environment cannot be created. Therefore we need to create a hyper-productive environment that is comparable to the thermal energy level of a plasma environment in physics. Nothing less will be sufficient in preparation for the coming Ice Age transition."

      Steve paused and took another bite from his sandwich. "Tell this to your President and see if he can understand any of it, but mostly tell this to the American people who have elected a whole train of brain-dead Presidents for decades that have all become fascist in their stupidity. If we can't get America out of its present trap, as America represents the tallest cultural achievement of mankind, we can kiss civilization goodbye. If America fails, Europe won't have a hope in hell, and less so the rest of mankind. In fact, humanity have very little left then that qualifies for the term, humanity. In this void we kiss mankind goodbye once the Ice Age begins, especially our children and their children unless they can manage to live without food."

      I raised my hand to stop him.

      "No, Peter! Just imagine this: All of Canada was once buried miles deep under an ice sheet during the last Ice age, together with the US Northeast, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Ireland, England, Poland, and most of Russia all the way south to past Kiev. While these vast areas won't be instantly covered in ice, their agriculture will likely be wiped out quite early in the transition period. It won't take long then until there won't be enough left of the current agricultural system to support mare than 100 million people worldwide. Unfortunately that won't cover more than 1% of the population, and even that is still 10 to 100 times bigger than the world-population that emerged from the last Ice Age. That's the situation your grand children or their children will be forced to face, Peter, if we don't act now. The critical point of decision is now."

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Stories about Being King for a Day from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche