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[mercrocker]

The population needs a massive cull. You just cannot keep shagging indefinitely.

Disclaimer - Yes I know its not a practical solution.
It is however more the problem.....

[SiC]

The population needs a massive cull. You just cannot keep shagging indefinitely.

Disclaimer - Yes I know its not a practical solution.
It is however more the problem.....

The bigger problem is not population growth, it's the aging of the population. People are living longer and getting to older age then stopping work is both expensive and social problems for society. This causes it to look like global population to be just growing from a huge birth rate when actually it's more than that.

You can already start to see this in Population age pyramids starting to get lop sided and not looking like pyramids - especially in developed nations. A large proportion of nations now are under the 2.1 birth ratio for population replacement. It's looking only going to get worse.


Population collapse is a very real thing that could happen this century and next.

[DodgeRover]

Until there is an alternative to either living in the city centre or having a car then private vehicle ownership isn't going to decline. Try doing a week's shop by bus for example, most villages have lost everything bar a corner shop so people need to be able to travel to get food/ doctor/ bank and that's before those few who need to work for a living.

[mercrocker]

City Centres are completely uninhabitable now for people with a modicum of choice. This country has demonstrated, for many years, a complete lack of will to establish a meaningful mass transit system (i.e bus and train services that actually work rather than provide income streams from cherry picked routing) and as Dodge says that is combined with a massive retraction of local services.

Furthermore, people do not want to or are no longer able to socialise, mix or buy things locally but shuttle between cloistered pockets of entertainment, food and activity from their outcrops of housing so readily erected in remote fields away from established areas.

Reliance on the motor car has been driven by other factors, then, much more than it has by simple craving of ownership. It is not us petrolheads and car freaks that have driven its useage to such unsustainable levels.

[Hooli]

Population collapse is a very real thing that could happen this century and next.

That's the best thing that could happen to the planet. The sooner the better.

[LynehamHerc]

Not that many years ago the fear was that the world population would grow to be too big:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation

There's always a disaster just over the horizon, like the Ice Age predicted for the end of the last century.

[Drum]

With the population density you have down south it's no surprise there are congestion issues.
Thank fuck I don't live there

[Broccoli]

I’ve been talking to one of the people I’ve been escorting around the US this past couple of weeks, as they were interested in when they thought I might retire.

I told him in the US it gets interesting around 72 when they make you take your pension, but can still work, but actively penalize anyone retiring in their early 60s with hugely expensive health care (mine would be $1,700 per month if I retire at 62).

He told me that in Japan, once you hit 60, the amount of money you earn is forcibly dropped, quite significantly, to make it less desirable to work after 60. Even if you are doing the same job.

Knowing that the developed asian countries like Japan have such good life expectancy, I’m wondering who actually benefits from that. An elderly population that could work, being supported by a younger generation who admittedly can rise through the work ranks quicker, but I’m not sure how that helps.

Then again, Japan has one of the worst debt to output ratios out there.

[LynehamHerc]

And with crap demographics, a very low birth rate for example, so they have to automate as much as possible.