tvashtarkatena Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 (edited) Ok, F it. Here's the craziest tinhat conspiracy: The ensuing turmoil yet to come will result in a massive world depopulation that is required for the transition to a new system of economic sustainablility. Good day. I think we are in for an inevitable world depopulation due to resource depletion, which will lead to a new sustainability (because, like, we're going to be forced into it by running out of stuff), but I think that depopulation will be mostly voluntary; an acceleration of the existing trend towards smaller family sizes. Yes, there are already resource wars and those will get larger and more widespread, but the bulk of the depopulation will be folks just saying no to having kids. About half of American households are childless right now. That trend will only continue. It's probably time to eliminate tax breaks that encourage having children. It's probably also time to relegate Evangelical attitudes towards birth control and sex ed back to the Middle Ages where it belongs. Actually, it never really belonged there, either. America's values are climbing out of a very deep, dark hole. After years of making people dissappear, torturing, invading places we have no business being, trying to establish world dominance, using way more than our share of gas and producing a proportionately huge amount of global warming, and basically being a bunch of ignorant, spoiled fucking assholes, a good, long, deep recession will 'incentivize' us to change some attitudes. In the end, we'll wind up with a healthier, more connected, happier, more creative, better loved, and somewhat poorer society. As anyone who's worked in any kind of development can tell you, an environment of scarcity is necessary for creativity, efficiency, and avoiding the luxury of consuming too much of your own bullshit. I love our national desire to 'fix the economy'. Good luck with that! Our economy must fundamentally change to adept to this new era of resource depletion, not be 'fixed' and thus returned to it's former speculative, gluttonous state. We may yet see richer times ahead, but only at a much lower population. Edited November 8, 2008 by tvashtarkatena Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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