Small wars and skirmishes are terrible, but they are nothing compared to the terror and devastation of world wars, or escalated wars fuelled and perpetuated by outside interests.

Get this: States will soon realise that the magical rise in demand they’re all hoping for to kick-start the global ‘perpetual growth’ economy isn’t going to be forthcoming. They might be able to boost investor confidence, and increase the money supply, but they can’t make up a glut in demand and prop up a whole economy. It wasn’t building the Hoover dam that launch the USA out of depression, it was the second world war.

Industry loves nothing more than a war. The demand for bombs, bullets, fabric, fuel, food, energy, aircrafts, computers, the unemployed, technology is insatiable. As industries feel the pinch and contract (or collapse), the positive outcomes of war for industries and States will only rise, and rise, and rise.

What will stop this happening. Sustainability is a solution to the world’s incipient woes, but why will those who control the direction of the State listen to academics when they’ve got crony industry reps hammering down the door, crying for support.