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Friday, March 8, 2024
The depopulation bomb
John Michael Greer on the real crisis of our time. Not overpopulation, but the exact opposite: population contraction. A crisis, that is, if you like modern civilization...
If you don´t, welcome to a world both strange and beautiful!
Interesting for sure. And we still have deaths from Covid here in Anglophone North America. Housing costs are still soaring here too, much from greed on the part of hedge fund investors and private equity buyers, who took advantage of low interest rates, usually they're bought outright, and rented out. A two bedroom apartment around me is about $1,800 USD monthly. $21,600 annual. Utilities have risen significantly, again from corporate greed in supposed post-Covid society.
Per capita income (2022) Chicago $45,840 (US Census figures) per household $71,673 (both spouses working). There are plenty of children now which were absent in the 90's and 2000's. They all need nannies while Mom goes to work. Many labor intensive jobs are filled by the influx of emigrants, Polish, Hispanic, Eastern European. Average home value owner occupied: $304,500. 16.9 % live in poverty. 2022 population estimated at 2,665,000. Land area 227.63 sq. miles. Cars and SUV's? Everywhere. Pet dogs? Everywhere. Inflation rate for groceries? Unbelieveable. We still have plenty of water from the Lake, which the Southwest; Arizona, New Mexico etc do not.
Interesting too that Mexico's birth rate is falling. Our migrants are often from Central and South America. My migrant amigo mentioned elsewhere was from Venezuela.
President Carter was big on solar panels, even put them on the roof of the White House, which Ronald Regan dismantled.
I for one agree with you, it will be strange and beautiful. I'll probably be long gone by then.
Interesting for sure. And we still have deaths from Covid here in Anglophone North America. Housing costs are still soaring here too, much from greed on the part of hedge fund investors and private equity buyers, who took advantage of low interest rates, usually they're bought outright, and rented out. A two bedroom apartment around me is about $1,800 USD monthly. $21,600 annual. Utilities have risen significantly, again from corporate greed in supposed post-Covid society.
ReplyDeletePer capita income (2022) Chicago $45,840 (US Census figures) per household $71,673 (both spouses working). There are plenty of children now which were absent in the 90's and 2000's. They all need nannies while Mom goes to work. Many labor intensive jobs are filled by the influx of emigrants, Polish, Hispanic, Eastern European. Average home value owner occupied: $304,500. 16.9 % live in poverty. 2022 population estimated at 2,665,000. Land area 227.63 sq. miles. Cars and SUV's? Everywhere. Pet dogs? Everywhere. Inflation rate for groceries? Unbelieveable. We still have plenty of water from the Lake, which the Southwest; Arizona, New Mexico etc do not.
Interesting too that Mexico's birth rate is falling. Our migrants are often from Central and South America. My migrant amigo mentioned elsewhere was from Venezuela.
President Carter was big on solar panels, even put them on the roof of the White House, which Ronald Regan dismantled.
I for one agree with you, it will be strange and beautiful. I'll probably be long gone by then.