And yes they had time. They had space. That's about all they had though. Sex. With the kids that came of it of course.
What will (eventually) follow the energy glut ? In some ways that's easy to predict and in some ways really hard. 1) cities will operate independently from states 2) there will be some group (ethnic maybe, or religious, or ideological) that will play robbers. Kill and rob, along the roads between cities 3) vast majority of people move back into agriculture 4) at least 80% of the population starve 5) wars about the remaining resources before it runs out, for a century or two before 1-4 start to really happen
Of course this only needs to happen if we do run out of energy, which frankly seems unlikely.
