The economic dependence on the consumption of oil - a finite resource is the fundamental weakness of the west. The west in general and Britain in particular have been the creative driving force of civilisational change for the past 1000years. However with wide sweeping political changes in the past 60 years, our headlong rush to globalisation and the vapid, sterile thinking our a once creative elite, the future for the west looks grim.
Lee Barnes in another forward thinking seminal article, says failure is not inevitable and a radical repositioning of Britain’s place in the world is possible. It will take a societal revolution; a revolution in our national mindset which will lead to the practical rebirth of our engineering capabilities a new Industrial Revolution which will lead to a new definition of money.
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