At least for the United States, most of the dire consequences are entirely avoidable; we just have to get off our duffs and do some work, and not idle away. Li

At least for the United States, most of the dire consequences are entirely avoidable; we just have to get off our duffs and do some work, and not idle away. Like the example given in the article of PG&E's rolling blackouts, these are mostly self-inflicted problems that are completely within our technical abilities to fix, we just have to do the work and spend the money intelligently to fix things that we've let go to seed.