By the time gas gets to $10 an hour, we will have taken steps to reduce reliance on oil consumptiion, much the way they have for decades in Europe were gasoline costs twice as much as it does here.
If more disasters occur, and more lives are lost, it will thin the herd, which is the natural order of things.
Stop watching the news and listening to talk radio for a couple of weeks. You'll have a whole new perspective. We live in a time when bad news travels fast and is all around us, delivered in living color with sound, 24/7.
If this were the 14th Century with the same mass communications systems in place today, we'd have mass suicides and crowds huddled on the hillsides holding Armageddon vigils.