Doly wrote:What the hell does he have to back up his statements?
History, reality, and the links he provided for starters:
Systemic breakdowns tend to progress unpredicably. You can see my article about North Korea for a sample of this (Pfeiffer, Dale Allen; Drawing from Experience, Part 1, in The End of the Oil Age; Lulu Press, 2004), or Dmitri Orlov's excellent material on the collapse of the USSR (Orlov, Dmitri; Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century & Our Village, in GRITS; Lulu Press, 2005; also archived at http://www.survivingpeakoil.com).