The Sinister Neoliberal Plot To Crash Global Populations
I know. It sounds absurd, but it’s working.
I have a certain, morbid attraction to movies and TV shows about the fantasy apocalypse and the day after doomsday. I think the granddaddy of them all was The Road Warrior with Mel Gibson. Titles like The Book of Eli, Terminator 2, Raised By Wolves, Station Eleven, Planet Of The Apes, and The Matrix, all tell the story of the world after the human race has been decimated.
All of them speak of a quick end to humanity as we know it. They’re wrong.
The end of humanity will be slow, increasingly boring, and, without much drama. Yes, we’ll have a few wars, but the only people who want to go to war are old and they’re not going to let go of their power but slowly. You know, through attrition.
The rest of us are just biding our time, watching our kids grow up, our lives burn out without kids, or hoping that some other force will save us.
On the same day that Russia invaded Ukraine, The Washington Post ran a story about population decline. The headline? “Deaths outpace births in most counties as U.S. growth slowed in 2020”. That’s a first for America. From the article:
The data released Thursday covered roughly 3,140 counties, more than 380 metropolitan…
