This is sure a different view than most, but it is in line with what I have been saying for a long time. They are like a plague of locusts and will not die off until they have consumed every last resource.
Let me go off on a crazy story here while I wait for them to do something here. I am an antivivisectionist. I look at humans as just one more species on this planet, among say a hundred million species or more. So, in that light, if we feel we have the 'right' to torture other creatures because we can, all I can say is, if you believe that I will accept that premise under one condition. If aliens arrive here one day looking for 'lesser creatures' to experiment horrifically on, you better have you a#% voluntarily first in line when I look over there. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Fair is fair. If you can honestly say that, then knock yourself out.
Now on to my rather silly analogy. We are being consumed. No one realizes that. We are the cows, raised and eaten because 'they can'. We have trouble accepting that, or even seeing ourselves that way, but we are. I once, long ago, posted a video where that was the point of the video, how we are all cattle. We are not important beings to 'them', we are 'lesser creatures'. If 'they' would do to animals what they do in labs, you think they won't consume us, leave us penniless, destitute, homeless, etc.? Too funny. We are like 'prisoners' sent off to the Russian salt mines, to be used up fast and replaced by others. At least here is someone else who sees the plague of locusts consumption model, as I am as close to 100% sure that is the route we are on as is mathematically possible. It's pretty sad.
Okay, I wrote all that up watching the ES on the next screen, and nothing has happened yet...
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2013/09/26/demand-boom-v-cost-boom/