@ AO ... I am completely with you in your Doomsday scenario.
My only reservation is whether the intellectual dwarves of BASSA and Unite actually think that deeply. Do you honestly think they take a 30-year view? From my reading over the last 6 months, they wouldn't recognise a buffer if they were perched on the front of a train. I suspect you give them credit for 79.7% more intelligence than they actually have.