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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
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To: elmatador who wrote (142710)7/23/2018 12:38:58 PM
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ElM the Club of Rome Doomsday prediction was wrong for other than Africa and a few other places. Even in those Malthusian places they have got away with it more or less (ignoring Rwanda and some minor famines minor compared with history).

Now the opposite Doomsday worry about too many old people is equally wrong. Being an old person myself I see a problem looming for me that is unavoidable (so far). We the Old are a self limiting "problem". We die not long after becoming incapable. Before that we add value which is why people live so long. Old people were seriously useful so the gene pool selected for long life.

The so-called problem is really just that free opm won't be available in the amounts that previous old people came to enjoy.

Already life is so easy that the proportion of old people won't be too high to continue to enjoy a cushy life.

Africa and some other countries are another matter altogether. 25 years ago their demographic expansion looked calamitous. They got away with it until now. It looks worse now.

Peak People was a neoligism by Mq a couple of decades ago when I also predicted the year = 2037.

If there is nuclear war, a big bolide, a pandemic then it might be sooner. But probably not.

If the world's population halves, that would still leave plenty to do everything. Especially as eugenics continues to upgrade the gene pool in leaps and bounds.

Meanwhile here in Loughton, London there are plenty of children.

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