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At the root of the main problem isn’t an economic collapse ( ongoing, obviously ).  Or really a decrease in oil ( the numbers on production show a stable plateau, but you must realize that as the numbers on conventional sweet crude are going down, crap/fake oil production is taking its place.  Peak Oil BTU is what we are looking at ).  Over population is what is causing the other problems ( it is also causing Gore Warming, indirectly ).  And since continuing ongoing population increase is baked into the cake, we can’t mitigate the other problems.  There is NO solution, other than cataclysmic die-off, just as has been the solution to all the other imperial overshoots and resource depletions throughout history ( overpopulation caused the need for agriculture, and then agriculture exasperated resource depletion through the need for empire, and then Industrial Agriculture spread it globally ).  The entire answer for the optimists and the Fag Survivalists ( Survivalists Lite or Yuppie Survivalists ) is that since overpopulation was solved before we can do it again and we will and we will have a smooth drawdown rather than an overshoot.  If die-off is the petri dish filling with bacteria which consume all food, then the fantasy of smooth drawdown ( which is defined by functionality of governance in your neck of the woods.  High death rates but no break down of social cohesion.  Die-off on the other hand is the most brutal and dark nightmare of desperation and anarchy you can’t possibly imagine ) is a freeze frame right on the apex of consumption, then directly skipping to the less unpleasant aspect of the new Dark Ages already in progress AFTER the population stabilization. 

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By focusing on Peak Oil or economic collapse or even global warming, we safely ignore overpopulation.  Too many people, which by the way are already in place surrounding you, is what you need to be afraid of.  Each sarcastic overweight greedy moronic mouth breathing asshat is going to be a direct threat to you as soon as the food isn’t delivered to the Sam-Mart near you.  And remember, that happens before all the droughts ruin all the crops.  It happens as soon as enough shortages occur with enough economic contraction and with enough fall in the production of petroleum.  We collapse far before zero is reached.  We look at, say, Yemen, and see a bell curve in oil production dropping precariously fast towards consumption levels and we see the wrong conclusion that they are still a functioning society ( by and large ).  They are still getting food and water transported to them, however abysmal there resource base is.  But because we haven’t reached the crest of the perfect wave of systematic failures ( money is still being made producing some oil and selling some food ) we think we can survive a similar collapse.  But what Yemen and so many like countries tell me is that global trade is still working, for now, and as soon as that falters further all these places are perfectly poised to fall off a cliff.  It doesn’t teach we can do with a lot less, it teaches that we haven’t reached Enough Less.  Ignore population at your peril.  You either get the problem or you don’t.  It is like believing hyperinflation can continue forever because it already has survived so far.  Good luck with that.

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