East West polarisation suggests that mutually assured destruction is already being arranged for us all. Rodent population experiments suggest the path down includes global depopulation from complete societal breakdown, in response to basic resource shortages from massive climate systems and ecological systems disorder, pandemics, and global industrial systems breakdown. Our current organisation is the end result of brittle maximum complexity, built by long history of growth, exploitation and many systems wars, which cannot be undone without collapse. It is emergent, not designed.