One of two things will happen.
The whole American mess will collapse into the chaos of another longer Great Depression. This with asymmetrical warfare all over the country as an unlikely alliance of starving Kluxers, and Left Anarchists that hunt fight kill, and eat the rich. (...I may join up.)
That or a kind of world wide Brazil for the west. This where those tasty free range rich live behind private armies in fortified luxury. Meanwhile the rest of the world continues to engage in genocidal wars.
I don't see anything else.
Well other than maybe one or two U.S. states breaking off into some sort of Jerry Brown/Bernie semi-egalitarian regions. ...which will likely be invaded, and subjugated by Washington.
Check back in say 200 years after this Dark Age starts to ebb. This because nature will have reduced us to less than a billion folks. Um half a billion I'd say by the look of what's coming. A somewhat more manageable ocean engulfed world.
I'm not bringing you down am I?
2 comments:
Quite right! When a species exceeds its resource base through a population boom, the ensuing population crash typically takes it down to about five percent of maximum boom-time population. From where we are now, that would be about 370 million surviving humans. So your guess of half a billion is not at all far out. I'm guessing it'll take a couple centuries to get there. Demographic processes usually take a while.
Some places will fall harder, some will do okay for a while. USA will fall hard. Quite a few countries will benefit from our collapse - viz., the ones we're currently destroying and/or extracting resources from. And primitive societies will do OK, mostly.
Our job is to get back in balance with nature. We will; but it won't be a painless process.
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PS - We are the few, who see this coming.The vast majority of Americans are living in a bubble of unreality.
Z
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