"They induced their own energy crisis." No matter how terrible the actual plight was, Cain couldn't help but laugh at it. Even in a world where apparently the issue could have been avoided for alternate means of easily accessible energy or tools of warfare, humans had fucked up and destroyed their perfect generator. After his laughter died down, Cain shook his head and said, "Sorry. It's not funny... but it is. There's a parallel there to some things going on in my own world right now."

Because Raine would probably be interested to know, Cain continued without prompting. "On Earth, people are facing a lot of difficulty because we've begun to hit the bottom of the well. We use finite resources that produce a good amount of energy, but they also damage the atmosphere in large enough quantities and can be harmful to living things. So it's all going to lead itself into a race to find a way to clean things up and continue living in the same way as we are despite it currently being unsustainable. No one knew the consequences of it until later, when it was way too late to make such a massive shift in lifestyle to turn things around."