Tag: population decline

How shrinking populations fuel divisive politics

Guest Post by Amanda Taub, Lauren Leatherby

In the 2000 film “Almost Famous,” Cameron Crowe’s comedy-drama about rock musicians in the 1970s, the character played by Zooey Deschanel gives her younger brother some advice. “Listen to ‘Tommy’ with a candle burning, and you’ll see your whole future,” she says.

I’m going to borrow that thought: Stare at the map accompanying this article with – or without – a candle burning, and you’ll see your whole future.

The map shows how the number of working-age people around the world is forecast to change by 2050.

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Population Crisis

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

I am not sure what the Deagel population decline report is referring to or how they arrived at that conclusion. Yes, I have said there remains the risk of a 50% decline in population as the Sixth Wave of the Economic Confidence Model concludes. This is historically standard. It is a combination of disease and global cooling – not warming. Germany has also had the coldest winter in 104 years and France lost 80% of its wine crop during to cold. Naturally, these people are claiming the extreme cold is also because of CO2. But they just make up this stuff. There is never any accounting with respect to history.

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