<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Dagon Gmail wrote:<br><div>But most of africa, the middle east, whole sections of southamerica, asia ... I</div>
<div>am very much worried that we will see collapses in the next decades, based on</div><div>combinations of incompetence, negative human urges, crime and most of all</div><div>insufficient easy to use energy. It may stabilize, but not before mass starvation</div>
<div>and unrest. Lets call that "brasilification" - teeming cities composed of millions</div><div>living in favellas, dependent on centralized, populist food distribution. Everyone</div><div>doing little useless oddjobs to keep society patched together, everything</div>
<div>saturated with despair, drugs, crime. Soweto, Gaza, Rio and the forbidden </div><div>city, all rolled into one endless fungal growth of human uselessness, places</div><div>where every morning a truck drives by to collect the gang warfare dead from</div>
<div>the streets</div>>>><br><br></div>I guess the cyberpunk authors like William Gibson had it right...<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>Even mostly unbeat GURPS THS situated the dystopian cyberpunk elements in the<br>
turd world.<br></div></div><br>