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So your... plan... is to wait for Western civilization to fall, and have the survivors return to traditional society amongst the abandoned buildings of the dead
by sbierwagen 6y ago
So your... plan... is to wait for Western civilization to fall, and have the survivors return to traditional society amongst the abandoned buildings of the dead empire?
Your best case scenario is population collapse, but to do it without disease or conflict? Just everyone peacefully getting old and dying without having children?
- nostrademons 6y agoIf we really can get it without war or disease, why not? People will be able to afford houses again. Wages will go up. Inequality will probably decrease, at the cost of making the rich people much less rich. Maybe we'll even get some semblance of community again. Aren't these all the things that people on both sides of the political spectrum are asking for? Oftentimes, what's good for the empire isn't good for the citizens of the empire. So yeah, I'm happy to leave behind the wreckages of a dead empire if it means more for the people in that empire. Unfortunately, I'm guessing that we'll get the war, or the pandemic, or both. That's how things have historically ended.
- tjs8rj 6y agoI think the general demographic thesis on human population peaking relatively soon is that it comes from people voluntarily having fewer kids as conditions improve a la the demographic transition model. There’s no expectation that we hit earths carrying capacity