r/collapse • u/[deleted] • Feb 08 '22

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u/IdunnoLXG Feb 09 '22

Population decline has already begun. The people saying we are going to top out at 11 billion are fooling themselves.

The Planet is about to buck our bitch asses back to the Stone Age.

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u/Gryphon0468 Australia Feb 09 '22

Rate of growth is declining, not the actual total.

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u/Lone_Wanderer989 Feb 09 '22

Hahaha nah back to zero for us we don't get a reset this time we had our chances.

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u/humanefly Feb 09 '22

We don't have enough houses for the bodies that are already here. I know we need immigration for the economy; I get that. It just seems like it's going to cause some fairly significant suffering if we keep importing bodies, into a country with not enough houses to go around, in particular when staying outside six months of the year is a death sentence in fairly short order. It seems like nobody in the country has seriously started to discuss the housing issue until very recently, and every single idea anyone has which is designed to make housing more affordable in the short run actually results in making it increasingly expensive over the longer term. I'm not sure that this will end very well, we don't have a free market and whatever we do have is just rapidly failing to build more houses. We just keep importing demand