[DManA]

Billions starve, tyranny rules, we enter a new dark age.

That is the downside of dragging the energy clock back 100 years.

[Freeping Since 2001]

Billions starve, tyranny rules, we enter a new dark age.

That is the downside of dragging the energy clock back 100 years.

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Let me try:

Impoverishing the nations, institutions, and individuals that support freedom can mean:

1. Global annihilation dues to forces of evil with nuclear weapons that would have been avoided by keeping a healthy economy.

2. The forces of socialism prevail, and in the 21st century equals their 20th century record of hundreds of million murdered.

3. The planet spending centuries under socialist oppression.

4. Billions die prematurely because of the waste of economic resources.