Always comes down to economy does it? And what if economy was our plague?
There is no single solution, as much as variety is the spice of life. What we need most is cooperation but noooo! That's communist stuff. "You take care of your stuff, I'll take care of mine" Well I beg to differ, it's not your stuff and it's not my stuff, everything and
we included belong to the planet. Sorry 'bout that! I always get carried away!
I have that Brin book in paperback somewhere, I'll have to dig it up someday and put it through the approximative 875 books I have yet to read.