I've come to understand that

the morality and relational well-being of mankind cannot be reconciled through the means of politics.  This does not mean no government
is needed.

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved
    by the level of thinking that created them."

in any case, any chapter of history since the dawn of time ought
to suffice as either proof or evidence.

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The critical resource for human life is food. We have a lot of food available, and there is a lot of natural habitat we can axe and chop for conversion to food production if things go awry. Oil, the critical resource for our current civilization, is estimated to last for another 50 years. We already have a replacement technology(Nuclear Fission) for the energy needs. Since oil is essentially organic, a lot of the deriatives of oil can be replaced by by biological substances(though at a greater cost and lower effectiveness, of course).