Post A8r4WLmLdLSAvGajGi by Humpleupagus@noagendasocial.com
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 (DIR) Post #A8r0P5D2RNg1goM424 by Andrii@we.1being.org
       2021-07-01T19:03:48.262471Z
       
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       "Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, most of the former Soviet republics have seen steep declines in rates of live birth, life expectancy, and most other measures of public health, while death rates have climbed well above birth rates and stayed there.4 For that matter, since the financial crisis of 2008, birth rates in the United States have dropped sharply; these days, immigration is the only reason the population of the United States doesn’t register significant declines year after year.This is the wave of the future. As fossil fuel and other resources dwindle, and economies dependent on those resources become less and less able to provide people with the necessities of life, the population boom will turn into a population bust. The base scenario in 1972’s The Limits to Growth, still the most accurate (and thus inevitably the most vilified) model of the future into which we’re stumbling blindly just now, put the peak of global population somewhere around 2030: that is, fourteen years from now. Recent declines in birth rates in areas that were once hotbeds of population growth, such as Latin America and the Middle East, can be seen as the leveling off that always occurs in a population curve before decline sets in.That decline is likely to go very far indeed. That’s partly a matter of straightforward logic: because global population has been artificially inflated by pouring extrasomatic energy into boosting the food supply and providing other necessary resources to human beings, the exhaustion of economically extractable reserves of the fossil fuels that made that process possible will knock the props out from under global population figures. Still, historical parallels also have quite a bit to offer here: extreme depopulation is a common feature of the decline and fall of civilizations, with up to ninety-five percent population loss over the one to three centuries that the fall of a civilization usually takes."From "Dark Age America" by John Michael Greer
       
 (DIR) Post #A8r4WLmLdLSAvGajGi by Humpleupagus@noagendasocial.com
       2021-07-01T19:49:55Z
       
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       @Andrii Caged animals don't reproduce. 🤷‍♂️
       
 (DIR) Post #A8rHK8n3Oji4ZIQici by Andrii@we.1being.org
       2021-07-01T22:13:23.760767Z
       
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       @HumpleupagusYep. You're completely correct. Urban/suburban living is living in a cage too small for population sustainability.We need basic human right to land fulfilled in order to have a future.