Well, you will say to yourself: That's not a problem.  We don't really need any oil.  And we don't need any coal, either.  Nor do we need all those high technology electrical energy grids.  We just revert back to the clean life style of earlier civilization: based on primitive agriculture and living of fish and wild game, using small wood fires for energy resources.  Ah, but you will realize at this point that you can't do that.  The big forests that once covered the Earth in the early days have long disappeared.  Even those forest that are existing today will most likely be gone by then, as wood becomes increasingly used up to meet the growing energy needs once the technological base collapses.  At this point mankind will also realize that the meager fruits of the earth fall far short of supplying the needs of even this vastly reduced world population.  Agriculture will become inefficient without fertilizers, pesticides, and energy intensive equipment for working the fields.  People will notice, that without having those historically available large quantities of wood at their disposal, they won't be able to produce the required coke for making steel again to forge their primitive plow-shears with, or to construct ships for high sea fishing.

Sadly disappointed, mankind gathers together the remaining towns people to discuss the situation.  They may decide that the human devolution project was a mistake, that it doesn't work (for which three and half billion people had to pay with their life at this point).  So the people decide to reverse course and try to pull themselves back up.  But, alas, this will no longer be possible either.  The easily harvestable physical resources that once existed, by which the human civilization had developed itself in those early days, have long been used up.  Suddenly the realization dawns that the historic cycle is not repeatable, when man used wood for making coke, and coke for making steel, which in turn was used in the early stages of primitive coal mining, until coal fed the steel mills and supplied the energy needs for industrialization up to the point when oil was discovered.  This ancient cycle of human development will not be repeatable at this stage, because the world environment had been changed in step with the unfolding steps of civilization.

At this point, the people will begin to realize that human civilization had developed itself to a stage that had put it beyond the dependence on primitive fuels and simple mineral extraction methods.  Sadly the realization takes hold that it is simply impossible to recreate that high tech industrial base that once existed before the industrial and scientific devolution began, but which is required to recover the resources that remain on the planet, which would be needed for the people to get themselves out of the hole.

What must it feel like, at this point, when people begin to realize that they have burned up their bridges behind them, that they have no way to pull themselves back up?  The fact is, that mankind cannot step back into paths that have been outgrown.

At this point you say to yourself: Well, that's fine, we will simply continue along the path we have and allow the population levels to collapse further until the natural resources of the Earth become sufficient to sustain human needs.  Actually, the people won't have any choice at this point.  Without its technological resources, the world-population will collapse to the 100,000 to 200,000 mark that is consistent with an animal like existence such as it was in the stone age of primitive hunters and gatherers.  At this point, man becomes extremely vulnerable to changing climatic conditions and fluctuations in animal populations that it will need for food.  This is the inevitable outcome of the type of large scale devolution that the elite deems necessary in order for mankind and its planet to survive.

The fact is, that the development of civilization and technological and scientific development are an integrated process, so that if you interrupt one, both will collapse.  Take away one, and you loose it all.  Reality is not divisible.  Nor is humanity divisible in time.  Humanity, as life itself, unfold in a nonlinear geometry where nothing is isolated, where the past is a part of the present, and that which is to be, has already been in principle.

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Stories about  Love from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche