Srila Prabhupada "Material Civilization Will Collapse"

Srila Prabhupada said the material society will eventually collapse. It does seem like the wheels are coming off in different ways already. Srila Prabhupada was very emphatic that his followers should start rural communities, grow our own food, use oxen and not machines, become self-sufficient etc. but unfortunately that has not come to pass. Anyway, we should be aware of his statements, even if they were not followed. ys pd  

Prabhupada: Everything I get. So I haven't got to go outside for exchange. If you are satisfied in your farm--I am satisfied--then where is question of exchange? There is no need of artificial... So this banking, "fanking," everything will collapse automatically. There is no money, who is going to keep money in the bank?

Hari-sauri: Who needs it?

Prabhupada: (laughs) So this artificial way of banking, that will be also collapsed.

Hari-sauri: This is revolutionary.

Ramesvara: It's very hard for the mind to...

Prabhupada: No, simply do this.

Ramesvara: Such a dramatic transformation of society.

Prabhupada: Yes. Whatever it may be... We should be satisfied locally by our food, by our cloth, by our milk. That's all. Let the whole world go to hell. We don't care. If you want to save yourself also, you do this. Here is an example. If you want artificial life, city life, and hellish life, you do. But we shall live like this. This is the ideal life.

[Srila Prabhupada Room Conversation, January 21, 1977, Bhubaneswara]