Discussion All world events explained with just one graph?

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Notice the inflection point of natural resources around 2030?
The brightest minds on earth are gathered in think tanks juicing up their brain cells to think of new ways to get > you < to stop having kids.
Think of all of the trends that are proliferating such as fourth-wave feminism (among women), radical nihilism, anti-natalism, conspiracies, addictive technologies, anime, AI, LGBTQ and 'Aquarian' ideologies. If you need to understand the modern agenda, look no further than popular social media such as 4chan. You only need to imagine the demographic being targeted, and then a room full of stuffy, middle-aged social psychologists thinking 'what kind of content can we push onto these individuals to make them not want to breed with each other?'

We can't forget the uproarious rise of the blackpill and the mysterious circumstances surrounding Lamarcus Small's suspiciously enduring forums. A whole ideology based on exacerbating male sexual jealousy and scaring 'sexhavers' out of relationships, just lol.

What are your thoughts on the population crisis?
1. Do you think that it's noble or malicious trying to stop everybody from having kids?
I am of the opinion that it's not malicious, because AI advances in longevity and health could allow for ultra-slow-life strategies and functional immortality, so there may be no need for sexual replication if my own cells can thrive indefinitely.

2. Do you believe you could live a comfortable life knowing that you will likely never spawn progeny?
I am of the opinion that, as an autistic male, I would not want to pass on my genetics anyway, and statistically I won't have many opportunities to anyway. In the 21st century there are alternatives to the traditional route, given the liberating qualities of technology.

3. Do you think the solution is Luddism (rapidly cutting back on wasteful technologies) or Accelerationism (embracing new technologies to streamline efficiency)?
I'm inclined to preach Accelerationism due to beliving in the transformative qualities in modern LLMs. Developments such as Google's 'Alpha' line of models make me feel that the future is promising. Reversion to Luddism would be anarchical because modern society is too integrated with technology for it to be a viable solution.

4. Are excess lives mere 'useless eaters', or should human lives be innately valued?
As a human my moral creed is that I don't want to be 'culled'. Denigrating others as useless eaters would make me a hypocrite.

5. Do you think that a culling of the population now (to around 1 billion in order to prevent complete extinction) would ultimately be good if it allows for humans to eventually colonize the universe and grow to 100 trillion in population?
With questions like these there is no certainty and nobody can predict the future. Lives in the future could exist or they could not, but lives now do exist and hold a much greater weighting due to their tangibility.

If you have any more interesting quotes, books or insights on this topic, I would love to hear them!

 

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1. Do you think that it's noble or malicious trying to stop everybody from having kids?

I don't really care because it doesn't really affect me. It's your problem, not mine, if you are fervently pro-natalist.

2. Do you believe you could live a comfortable life knowing that you will likely never spawn progeny?

Having a high standard of living and having basic needs met is what I value more. I shy upon the notion of reproduction because I don't like the idea of bringing another consciousness into this world.

3. Do you think the solution is Luddism (rapidly cutting back on wasteful technologies) or Accelerationism (embracing new technologies to streamline efficiency)?

Accelerationism seems to be the way forward, especially considering the rate of technological advancement we are seeing in recent times. Luddism is a reversion to the mean of recorded human history—tribalism, scarcity and high mortality. If there's an opportunity to make leaps and bounds in our progress as a species, we should just take it uncompromisingly.

All the events in modern human history have been leading up to this crucial juncture, and for humanity to descend back into the primal swamp of bestial savagery seems to be a massive waste.

Not saying accelerationism is without it's cons, we could be very well heading into a dystopic hell of our own making, but these concerns are cursory at best and the potential for immense gains more attractive than what the alternative of Luddism offers.

4. Are excess lives mere 'useless eaters', or should human lives be innately valued?

I think there is a subset of the human population that could be considered 'useless eaters', but it's more a reflection of fundamental human inequalities rather than any personal judgement—it's not up to me to make that call. But I'm hopeful about the potential of future technology to enhance the human species (ie. genome editing).

5. Do you think that a culling of the population now (to around 1 billion in order to prevent complete extinction) would ultimately be good if it allows for humans to eventually colonize the universe and grow to 100 trillion in population?

Not really, considering how we can't foresee such a result occurring as we'd expect it to, and for that reason it doesn't justify the large amount of suffering for what is ultimately an indefinite outcome. It's not something humanity can come together towards through democratic means, it'd have to be done malevolently through bad actors. Some madman is probably working on this as we speak tho.

 

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We're already seeing the effects of demographic collapse on the economy with a trend toward steady-state zero growth societies. Almost everything is affected by the variables in this graph and we're seeing the effects from shrinkflation to migration to recession, all the way to cultural shifts and environmental instability.

As for environmental collapse:

Spoiler: Environmental Collapse Links

MSN

Insects are still disappearing - and there are hundreds of reasons why

Insect populations are crashing worldwide. It’s not just farming. Scientists mapped 3,000 causes and found many ignored threats.

www.earth.com

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/57-billion-tons-of-top-soil-have-eroded-in-the-midwest-in-the-last-160-years-180979936/

Addressing the Triple Planetary Crisis at Our Ocean 2025 - Ocean Conservancy

We are dealing with a triple planetary crisis with climate change, biodiversity loss and plastic pollution. Read for more.

oceanconservancy.org

Holocene extinction - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Industrial output will of course decline as more people live to old age, straining the already strained healthcare system. Wealth will concentrate into the older generations too.

Generally, have you noticed that the quality of foodstuffs have declined? There are cost-related reasons, but a huge factor is that environmental instability is causing failure in many crop species. This is the reason why soy is being pushed, because it's one of the more resistant crops and easy to farm.

Spoiler: Food Instability Links

The Crash No One Sees Coming: Food System Failure

Climate-driven food shocks pose a growing risk to global markets. As yields fall and insurance retreats, the next financial crash may start in the fields.

www.forbes.com

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/06/climate-change-insects-pests-crops-agriculture/

Estimating resilience of annual crop production systems: theory and limitations

Agricultural production is affected by climate extremes, which are increasing because of global warming. This motivates the need of a proper evaluation of the agricultural production systems resilience to enhance food security, market stability, and the general ability of society to cope with...

arxiv.org

As for pollution:
Everybody already knows about microplastics. There is also leached pesticides, dioxins and heavy metals in the water, volatile organic compounds. Poor mental health is strongly linked to environmental pollution. Dioxins and mercury weaken the blood brain barrier and allow inflammatory proteins in, they also create oxidative stress and burden the body. Chronic inflammation caused by pollution can dys-regulate neurotransmitters and cause mood disorders. Pesticides and dioxin can interfere with your endocrine system and cause estrogen dominance which is a potent risk factor for mental health issues. Pollutants also alter epigenetic mechanisms, hexing your bloodline for generations. Look at the pollution line on the graph, and wonder why the rates for autism/adhd/most non-communicable disease just so happen to align with spiking environmental pollutants.

Spoiler: Pollution Effect on Health Links

Environmental Agents

NIEHS provides information about chemicals or factors in the environment to which humans are exposed that may cause adverse health effects.

www.niehs.nih.gov

The plastic brain: neurotoxicity of micro- and nanoplastics - PMC

Given the global abundance and environmental persistence, exposure of humans and (aquatic) animals to micro- and nanoplastics is unavoidable. Current evidence indicates that micro- and nanoplastics can be taken up by aquatic organism as well as by ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Air Pollution, Depressive and Anxiety Disorders, and Brain Effects: A Systematic Review - PMC

Accumulating data suggest that air pollution increases the risk of internalizing psychopathology, including anxiety and depressive disorders. Moreover, the link between air pollution and poor mental health may relate to neurostructural and ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals: implications for human health - PMC

Since reports published in 2015 and 2016 identified 15 probable exposure–outcome associations, there has been an increase in studies in humans of exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and a deepened understanding of their effects on ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Gene × Environment Interactions in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Role of Epigenetic Mechanisms - PMC

Several studies support currently the hypothesis that autism etiology is based on a polygenic and epistatic model. However, despite advances in epidemiological, molecular and clinical genetics, the genetic risk factors remain difficult to identify, ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Things are always happening, but did you realise that after COVID people became far more insular and less interested in others? This is to do with yet more brain inflammation:

COVID-19 induces neuroinflammation and loss of hippocampal neurogenesis - PMC

Infection with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is associated with onset of neurological and psychiatric symptoms during and after the acute phase of illness1–4. Acute SARS-CoV-2 disease (COVID-19) presents with ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Vapid content on social media gives the impression that nothing ever happens. Things are always happening even if they are not immediately affecting you.