Young whipersnapers and their throw the old code away syndrome...

You don't restart from scratch and hope for the best. If the systemic conditions that make our civilization ill persist, they will affect version 2.0.

It is much much better to incrementally improve the current system, even if the end game is not clear yet. A full rewrite always throws out the good along with the bad, and it is clear our civilization has many good characteristics in it.

I, of course, disagree on the need to restart from scratch.I think that the resource problems we face are slow moving enough that we will avoid them. The real danger is in fast moving problems that we do not know about yet.

Well I think we will be forced to restart from scratch since we can't manage to make even the easiest incremental changes needed ... imo we're bound to collapse a la USSR style.

If that is the case, then let's hope we don't suffer from second system syndrome...

Maybe we could start by doing a proof-of-concept before we rewrite the civilization?