¹Some politicians and pundits continue to labour under the delusion that "our way of life is not negotiable." One could point out that the laws of nature are not proposing to "negotiate" on the subject of resource scarcity, any more than the laws of nature will pause to "negotiate" your rate of descent from a very tall building if, midway down, you regret jumping off the roof (nor - and more to the point - will the laws of nature "negotiate" on the subject of your abrupt cessation of descent at the bottom of the building).

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.