Why Conspiracy Theories?

[mixed_biscuits]

 

[version]

Looks like some of the Q supporters are having to come up with yet another conspiracy theory to explain their collapsing worldview.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Well this is fucking weird...

Boris Johnson's message to Joe Biden has bizarre hidden reference to Trump

The Prime Minister tweeted to congratulate Joe Biden on Saturday - but a closer look suggests the message may have originally been made out to Donald Trump

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Head of the World Economic Forum:

 

[catalog]

Looks like a face

 

[catalog]

We've known this for ages though right? Malthus. That pop growth is geometrically exponential whilst resources are only arithmetically growing. So at a certain point the S curve collapses and the whole thing starts again

 

[catalog]

It's maybe weird for it to be stated so explicitly and for it to be stated as a unilaterally positive thing, but I can't see a lot of experts of certain disciplines seen anything odd about this

 

[mixed_biscuits]

The demographics have been changing for a while and we'll soon be struggling with a decrease - Danny Dorling, Oxford Uni geography prof is the go-to expert on this.

 

[WashYourHands]

The death of Europe etc.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

As the world gets wealthier, reproduction rates will go down as they have in the West.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Well the choice is pretty clearly between a managed reduction in the global fertility rate now or a catastrophic depopulation in the future, isn't it? I know which I'd prefer.

 

[Mr. Tea]

As the world gets wealthier, reproduction rates will go down as they have in the West.

This is true, but unfortunately, according to the present model, resource use and waste production go up as people get wealthier, too.

 

[Mr. Tea]

The demographics have been changing for a while and we'll soon be struggling with a decrease - Danny Dorling, Oxford Uni geography prof is the go-to expert on this.

Why would this constitute a struggle, exactly? Population decrease would reduce competition for land in very crowded countries like ours, and presumably also drive wages up.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Why would this constitute a struggle, exactly? Population decrease would reduce competition for land in very crowded countries like ours, and presumably also drive wages up.

Having enough people to provide for the elderly.

 

[WashYourHands]

Easier to do than you think. In Japan it’s common for over-65’s to care for the elderly. A cultural shift, but one that is consistently overlooked, planned for, or with any coherent and achievable strategy in mind.

You could treat it as a form of national service conscription. I see no moral quandary there.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Having enough people to provide for the elderly.

Oh lol, that old chestnut. Do we have a general labour shortage at the moment, do you think?

 

[Mr. Tea]

It's the same argument given for the need for continuous high levels of immigration. "We need more young people to look after all the old people." Well nearly all young people will one day be old themselves, so how is this anything other than a demographic pyramid scheme?

 

[mixed_biscuits]

That's what the vaccine's for: to dismantle the unsustainable pyramid scheme.

 

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Head of the World Economic Forum:

Look at how he's dressed!

 

[catalog]

is that papa @yyaldrin ?