From the very first day of civilization--the existence of cities--all of those ills have existed. Cities require mass production. Mass production requires for most people to be employed in jobs that alienate them from their work and other people--and in the end themselves. (Though Marx was right about that, his proposed solution was wrong.)

Civilization as we know it will soon be destroyed by the environmental crisis that mass production has now unleashed upon the world. Unfortunately, the hierarchical structure of society that civilization ushered into the world will not end. Most survivors will be enslaved; a few will be local overlords and their minions.

It turns out that becoming 'civilized' was the worst thing that human beings could have done. There was a time when a better understanding of justice could have redeemed civilization, governing the inevitable hierarchies associated with it, but that time is past. It's too late now for even real justice to prevent the collapse ofcivilization--though acting justly is always a good thing to do, no matter what.