Baudrillard offers precious little hope that this catastrophe, the implosion , can be averted. The West, he suggests, has sustained itself for millennia on a controlled explosion , a slow growth that has passed the point that can be sustained.
Implosion is the inevitable result.
Nothing will halt the implosive process, and the only remaining alternative is between a violent and catastrophic implosion, and a smooth implosion, an implosion in slow motion. As an example, Baudrillard points to the plight of the Native Americans who were forced to quickly convert from a slowly implosive system to the slowly explosive system of the West. As we can now see, this transition was nearly fatal for Native American culture while it proved to be simply fatal for most Native Americans. Baudrillard sees the current transition in the West as but the first step in what will be a quick plunge into an implosive system. Most of us, if he is right, will not survive.