Welcome to the progressive dark ages. We will need some Irish priests to hide away on islands of sanity so that one day true knowledge can once again reemerge.
If this is the case, instead of spending billions propping up liberal after liberal failure, we should build desalination plants around the world and pipe the fresh water to the interiors to grow crops and other plant life.
What we should do is have one of our conservative allies in congress call for a bill to do this and them let Obama veto it. That would kill the environmental lobby and green whacko movement.
Especially after history has been rewritten and all the libraries are digital.