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>>19222498
It's failing because it's out of cheep, easy-to-get non-renewable energy such as coal, oil, and natural gas, which every year becomes more expensive to extract and yields less surplus for all things industrial, commercial, and residential. Less surplus = less wealth = less taxes collected by governments in power (liberal or otherwise) = why things fail. Throw in how useless people are at understanding or managing anything of what powers their lives and you've got even more rapid decline a la "going green". You want a book to read, check out "Man. Energy. Society" by Earl Cook.