There is no easy, or pleasant way to go around this: we are not in a depression, macroeconomic crisis, but we are in a system failure.

The whole socio-economic system, based on the dream of infinite, constant, quantitative economic growth has reached dead end, since such a system is without any natural foundations, thus the model cannot be sustained within a natural system.

This model is based on inventing and then implanting artificial desires, cravings for pleasures in people in order to keep consuming, changing goods, pleasures they do not have natural inclination, need for.

And they are forced to keep consuming beyond their means which lead to the present unsolvable debt burden both for individuals and nations alike.

Even if we had unlimited natural resources to drive such system, the human resources are already exhausted, indicated by rising unemployment, especially among the youth, social inequality, loss of purchasing power and confidence, not to mention other worsening social statistics related to health, family, human relationships, culture, education and so on.

Although the article claims that there is no credible war chance on the horizon to give a reviving shock to the economy, we already have experience that the major power brokers in the world, especially the US can design and initiate a war whenever it wants to, but on one hand such adventures became more and more unpredictable in the present global, interdependent system, and since the problem is a fundamentally wrong direction for the whole of humanity, even a war could not change that unless we change ourselves, our attitude, lifestyle, and how we relate to each other.

Now this will be the most difficult to accept in the US, since it is this country who "perfected" the constant quantitative growth model, and the "American Dream".

But if we do not face the facts, and start understanding the closed, finite natural system we exist in, and the fully interconnected human network, meaning that the whole of humanity moves together, either developing or sinking, the worsening crisis and inevitable meltdown will force us to do the same but in much worse and highly unpredictable conditions.