/gulag/ - gulag

Yeah that’s right, we’re looking that far ahead today. One thing I want to clear up about population drops is that the literal number of people gone matters much less than how we lose all those people.

As far as I’m concerned, the actual drop in numbers doesn’t matter. What we’re all going to expect from population collapse (it’s actually inevitable in a lot of countries or has already happened) definitely does. When I say population collapse, I don’t simply mean a massive decline in the amount of people around. I also mean a massive shift in the type of people around. Currently every generation right now is getting older and larger in their overall size. Adults make up a disproportionate part of the population overall, and that share is going to cause the crisis to last longer than it should.

For example, look at Ukraine. Post USSR collapse, the country is still in a demographic crisis that is fucking over the potential of its people to ever see anything good come out of it decades after the first population collapse was realized.

You get the point. The first time population collapse happens in any country, you can expect multiple waves of decline to come after for decades afterwards. You cannot really adapt at all in that environment.

Although population crises aren’t new to human history, they normally don’t last this long nor are this severe. I don’t know how people are going to adapt to a planet with a physically dying humanity and ecosystem.

I don’t know what to expect out of this. Without anyone to maintain cities a lot of housing and infrastructure is going to collapse along with supply chains that could support a much larger populace. The new generation doesn’t really have a lot of support in life to handle any of the responsibilities they’ll be dealing with when the decline increases in its severity eitber. Most of the elderly are going to become impoverished given how useless pensions are compared to familial support (you know the thing that they don’t really have right now) for long term care.