In my opinion, there is no back-up plan ....  

At one time, former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev suggested that Russia is too important for other countries to remain isolated forever.  He suggested that the initially imposed economic sanctions would eventually be lifted or relaxed.  

However, this is an overly optimistic statement .... 

The oil and gas embargo, in my opinion, has disastrous consequences for the Russian economy.  Also catastrophic is the ban on the import of Western technology.  

However, all these effects have a long-term effect.

This effect will not appear immediately, but will have disastrous consequences.

These fuel price increases are really making the inflation much quicker and higher and it's the whole world that suffers expect for the few companies that have their main source through oil.

Damn, the ATH on the oil prices really is making our lives harder and it's a domino effect when fuel price increases. All commodities and goods are also increasing. When this war will end and things will go back easier pre-pandemic, we're just about to see the neutralization of the covid-19 due to vaccines but there's another challenge due to the war and oil price increases.

The reliance on oil has always been the easy solution but it is not the only solution. The problem is the politicians are not paid to solve problems, they are paid to politik problems. Europe has ample land, order solar panels from china and put em up like no tomorrow and watch what happens. China's factories can churn out panels pretty fast. The poorer regions could use this as a source of income for the richer regions. Solar efficiency is increasing despite the funding for solar being well below the R&D budgets for fossil fuels. There are prototypes of over 50% efficiency, the current solar cells in market are only around 15% efficient right now.

There is still sufficient time to shift from fossil fuels before reserves dry up... oh and theres a shortcut too if the earth doesent matter, just buy from the other oil producing countries, countries like the UAE have tons theyre sitting on.

All of this wont happen though... heres whats going to happen instead... largely nothing will be done to address the supply issue. Some supplies may be arranged from alternate suppliers but they will be inadequate. Fuel prices will continue rising. Daily items prices will sky rocket. In some countries the prices of groceries tripled during early days of covid and continue to rise till today.
"You will own nothing and be happy" know where that comes from?
The money printer that was turned on during COVID will continue the after effects of 'inflation'. If this does not show why FIAT is a failure i do not know what will.. This is why BTC exists and is a hedge against inflation.

EVs will not solve the problem because the problem is where does the electricity come from? Many times a major chunk of it comes from fuel...

I am optimistic that the problem of energy is addressable on a global scale without fossil fuels but skeptical that any major country has the guts to move away from fossil fuels dependence (bhutan is a good pilot case study on green energy as a major source of energy)

Worlds economy is going to shit these days. I do not think that any of us will have enough time and money to make anything extra. I fear that every dollar, even cent that we get, will go towards surviving. Let’s be honest, the day we are living right now is nothing like 10 years ago, let alone 50 years ago, we are in a situation where everything sucks.

We are barely making any money at all, and we are doing horrible at this moment. People age between 20 to 40 do not have enough money to survive, they barely go by. Most of us do not even own homes, only if our family has enough to help us, that’s it. So, it is really not possible to save these days, it is getting worse each day.

So far we have talked much about expensive fuel in connection with personal transport. What about public transport in your region? Has ticked prices went up or transport companies plan to do it? So far in my country I see people, who use public transport with sort of a dominance on their faces. They have paid same ticket price when the diesel (I have diesel car, so I remember diesel prices) cost less than 1 EUR, 1 EUR, 1,50+ EUR, 2+ EUR. Public transport users so far feel quite comfortable with fuel price increase, or so far they bother about it. In my country I think the amount of public transport users is greater than those who use their own transport. But, if ticket prices doubles, I expect dissatisfied statements.

Instead of the current problems with gasoline, problems with electricity will begin, that's all.

Don't want to get too off topic here, and I like your enthusiasm, but I would disagree strongly with the implementation of such an idea.

Merit is already treated by many as a "I like this/I agree with this" button rather than a "This is a constructive post/This adds to the topic at hand, regardless of whether or not I agree with it" button. A de-merit button would be treated the same, with many users using it on posts they do not like or disagree with, rather than posts which are simply spam, zero value, etc. There is no doubt people would use de-merit against users who accuse them of something, give them red trust, or simply disagree with them. I also have no doubt that there would be merit circles who would conspire to heavily de-merit users they do not like.

Having such a set up essentially turns us in to an echo chamber like Reddit, where the most popular opinions are the most visible, regardless of whether or not they are actually correct.

We already have (multiple) rules against this sort of behavior from BADecker. We just need to actually enforce them.

Amazing how that one country alone is being relied on for wheat by several countries and that it not being able to export could cause unrest in these. Also starkly reminds us of how interconnected our countries has become that many are no longer able to feed themselves efficiently.

If does come to a no-more-wheat scenario, there's really no choice but to eat something else. When our country started having rice shortages a few decades ago, people ended up having to eat more sweet potato and cassava. So maybe less pita and more pilaf for the Middle Easterners, for example. Tortilla ain't that bad either.

Thats contactless card payments, From the diagram below its worldwide.

https://suitsmecard.com/blog/contactless-limits-around-the-world

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With this form of payment its makes using credit and debit cards very convenient for us
to use but all the transactions can be traced. I see it here all the time, cash is being used less
and less.

So while societies are unknown to themselves adopting a cashless environment the vast majority
dont realise what they are giving up by abandoning cash and less realise the autonomy Bitcoin offers.

The younger generation is more adaptable to a rapidly changing world, before the speed of life was different. Now updates are constantly coming, new models of gadgets are coming out and a person must adapt to innovations very quickly. Older people cannot reorganize in a new way, it is difficult for them. In a few decades, the older generation will be very advanced and I hope they will be able to adapt just as easily to all the innovations that will appear.

Shower thought on a person's age, learning Bitcoin, and accepting Bitcoin. Because most of the "older people", especially in government, reject it, then I usually ask myself, "how much longer must Bitcoin run to accepted by the no-coiners"?

I believe I was asking the wrong question. There is NO "solution", other than let the older generation die and be replaced by a younger generation more willing to accept Bitcoin, OR who might already be HODLing Bitcoin.

That's right, While there is still a risk to holding USDT, USDT is not a UST. USDT is backed by the dollar and a few days ago Tether also released the results of its audit for the first quarter with total assets amounting to $82 billion while a circulating capitalization of $74 billion.

Before the collapse of the UST, there were also warnings that the algorithmic stablecoin was unsustainable and would be very risky as it depends on the price movements of bitcoin and other altcoins.

Again we only talk about the electric cars but this isn't end with the cars alone, I am talking about moving the goods from ship to truck, even we are in the development of electric trucks but what about moving the billion tonnes of cargo across all over the world.

I have been there several times before .... and if I panicked I would have lost a LOT of money. I bought bitcoins when it was $300+ and also when it was $21000 .....and then it went down with almost 60%! If I sold... I would have kicked myself into a Mental institution, because shortly after that.... the price increased with 800%.. 

If you use Bitcoin as a "Commodity" or an investment option.... you should look at it as a long-term investment. It is not some "Get Rich Quick" scheme, where you come in and quickly take huge profits.