There are only two ways of dealing with what has become a planetary emergency: "The first is technologising our way out of it. The second is radical behaviour change." So I guess that about wraps it up then for the industrial revolution. Since the problems are too big for the first and humans are incapable of the second. The only remaining question is the time scale for this to play out and hence whether it is us that has to cope with the fall out or our great-great-grandchildren.
Enjoy it while you can.
ps. I'll be sorry to see this blog's brand of realism disappear but I completely understand the need to just stop writing for a while.
seeAlso http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jul/05/ten-billion-stephen-emmott-review Can you unpack it and see the fnords?