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Greeley Miklashek, MD's avatar

Laudable attempt at future casting but many inaccuracies: 47% of Americans 18-50 are choosing NOT to reproduce for a variety of reasons; population density stress is driving higher levels of the chronic stress hormone "cortisol", which inhibits the master reproductive hormone "GNRH" and thus sperm production and female reproduction; we are clan/band evolved animals and the nuclear family is the last phase of societal collapse; the 70+ yrs. of animal crowding researches are nowhere mentioned (Calhoun, Southwick, Christian, etc.); the inevitable collapse of the American constitutional Republic under the Fascist takeover now in full progress is not mentioned; climate collapse is not mentioned and it is well underway--we may well see an unlivable 6 degC increase over preindustrial by 2047; full-on civilizational collapse is already baked-in to our massive overpopulation/overconsumption (3,000 times too numerous); God does not like what He/She/they are seeing. Perhaps most importantly, our educational systems are floundering and the general populations are dumbing down at accelerating rates, as predatory Capitalism consumes itself. Again, thanks for your effort.

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Martin's avatar

Excellent, as always, but I still see a giant absence in your meta-analysis, an absence that Hagens, the now mentally-deficient Kuntsler and Greer share. - the C-word.

The systems you allude to are not governed by a “We.” They are not governable by an indistinct “Us.” These systems are now wholly owned and operated by Corporations. Trucks, employment, housing, money, environmental destruction. - all completely under the rule of mindless, amoral psychopathic ultra social command entities populated by power calculus cyborgs like Musk, Dimon, Andersen, ad infinitum. And no thought-guru is anything more than a speck of dust compared to this global human extinction delivery system.

Sorry to be repetitive in my comments. - you of course write really well about this largest of subjects. You should write what you want to write. But Substack does have this commenting feature, which offers at least the idea of actual reaction from interested readers.

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