So, when are the serfs of the Corporate World gonna have their Popeye Moment:

[robertpaulsen]

20. Two things need to happen for the Popeye Moment to occur

1) The lights need to go out.

I'm talking about the electricity grid going kaput for an extended period of time. If the grid goes down for at least a week or two, people won't be glued to their sofas watching a blank screen. They won't be walking around with their heads pointed down fiddling with a cell phone they can't charge. They won't be able to buy their way to happiness when ATMs don't work! They'll have no choice but to drop their apathy, drop their complacency and take direct action.

2) The climate starts cooking our farmlands to the point we can't grow food for first world citizens.

After Katrina, after Sandy, I'm convinced the only way Climate Change will stop being a "debatable" subject for Americans will be when we lose our ability to grow enough food to feed our 300 million+ and growing population. When grocery shelves start going bare, people are going to shed their ideological inhibitions pretty fucking fast in exchange for a lasting solution.

Unfortunately, I don't think either of these scenarios will happen until the 20s at the earliest, most likely the 30s, but definitely by the 40s. In other words: when it's too fucking late to fix civilization.