The day Autism become "curable" is a day I dread.

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Aristophanes, you might find some of John Michael Greer's lectures and interviews on Youtube particular interesting. He's written countless books about peak oil, the myth of technological progress as salvation, and the idea that as we go over the hill of peak oil the west will endure a similar slow decline to what Rome did. The overall idea would be that things would get tighter, that commerce and travel would greatly decreased, and while we might still have the internet in a way we won't have any of the cheap or easy fuel the way we used to so it will be a landlocked society that would need to produce it's own food locally. Similarly we'd have to reactivate technologies that were discarded in favor of the convenience provided by abundant electricity. From this point to that point economic poverty would increase in these general sort of systemic rips and bursts that would echo through the whole economic and social system and continue to deleverage standard of living to lower and lower levels for perhaps a few centuries. Not sure if we'll burn ourselves off of this rock before any of that even comes to fruition but it seems to show that if one thing doesn't get us the other will.

On a complete side note I also do find it fascinating that the social narrative of the Aquarian age seems to play into this also. Aquarius is ruled by Saturn, Saturn the planet of restriction, and this seems to suggest humanity under increasing pressure to deal with itself within a shrinking bubble of space and under receding options. Not that I particularly trust all of that but it can be fascinating how our broader social narratives, things like peak oil or the agreed upon need to heavily monitor and regulate carbon output, can coincide with things like procession of the equinox.