Hi Will:

"The industrial revolution could be the end of complex life on the planet. I guess you'd hate to miss that, eh?"  A nonsensical statement, as we have discussed before regarding the claim our modern world looks just like the run-up into the Permo-Trassic extinction event.  (How do you feel about the Neolithic Revolution, by the way?)

There is something more than a little disingenuous about bitterly criticizing the advance of technological civilization, when that is what gave you better than 50:50 odds of making it past your 5th birthday without succumbing to infectious disease or starvation - and then being able to live beyond the ripe old age of 40 if you did make it out of childhood.  :-/  You evidently have a fascination with dystopian fantasy.   It reminds me of nothing so much as the Survivalist movement in the 1980's, or the apocalyptic obsessions of certain fundamentalist churches.  

Were you traumatized by the Mad Max movies as a child?