This thread is for those of you that have had an uneasy sense that a terrible change was on the horizon for all of us.
Maybe it's happening with the Deutsche Bank's seemingly imminent collapse. Maybe it's happening with the tension between Pakistan and India over Kashmir, or the West and China over the South China Sea, or maybe it's the Proxy War in Syria spinning out of control. Maybe the Koreas will end their long ceasefire.
But then again, maybe it isn't happening just yet.. something is coming, and those who've been paying attention know there's problems, human overpopulation and the 'mouse utopia problem'
And then there's the inevitable peak production of oil and subsequent decline of a world running on easy mode energy.
What happens to the world's biggest military and first nuclear power as it begins to decline from its position of power as the petrodollar comes to an end?
What happens to a world so heavily built on and invested in electronics if a rogue super saiyan solar flare ever hits us?
Indian banks like SBI and HDFC are more valuable than Deutsche Bank.
Dylan Taylor
Sure, but what's gonna happen to the Euro if the largest bank in the Industrial manufacturing center of the Eurozone goes under? Your poo banks might not even be safe
Brandon Rivera
Don't forget all the "gas leaks" and "drug lab" explosions this past week
It won't affect us much, as our economy is not Euro dependent. We have more trade with UK than rest of EU combined.
Christian Davis
21st century is going to be absolute carnage no question about it, definitely when not if. I suspect church will rise along with national socialism in the west. At first it may seem great but the boot will come down hard on many noodles squishing their brains all over ground. Middle east will fire up a conflagration and world will be drawn in, hopefully in all seriousness there will be a quick and extreme nuclear war as opposed to some long drawn out fog of hell.
Brandon Morales
that graph.. is pretty much terrifying
Mason Jenkins
I was on a thin line of enlisting now i know i want to
Thomas Cox
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Happenings are cool to think about, but when it comes to the brink we want to turn around and choose a new path.
If shit hits the fan, may god have mercy.
Gavin Torres
well I guess we'll be finding out soon enough
Xavier Thompson
>This thread is for those of you that have had an uneasy sense that a terrible change was on the horizon for all of us. Yea, I have this strange feeling that Australia is going to be a containment centre for refugees after America and Europe collapse
Luis Morris
Hey, it's a colorized doomgraph from "Limits to Growth", the 1972 computer model projection that everyone (except me) has been laughing at for 40 years.
Is it funny now? Are you laughing? Funny, I don't hear as much laughter as I used to...
Isaac Nguyen
Checkd
>Australia is going to be a containment centre for refugees after America and Europe collapse
The last time Australia was used as a containment center it became a continent-nation. Rising of MudslimeKangz Second Antlantis?
Robert Williams
I feel like people ahve been telling me for years that shit is going to fall apart and yet nothign has changed
Grayson Adams
Nothing has changed? What fucking paradisaical pocket of this shithole country are you hiding out in? I live in the whitest major metropolitan area in the country and there's nothing but shitskins everywhere I look. This place only vaguely resembles its 2006 self.
Christian Baker
Seattle? Minneapolis? Denver?
Josiah Johnson
Capitalism is collapsing the future belongs to communism
Burn the rich eat their flesh
Grayson Jenkins
Oh forgot Portland, OR
Camden Anderson
Yep, Portland (though Vancouver, WA lately).
I can't take a walk in the park without seeing 30 shitskins.
Isaiah Barnes
Like from middle east or where?
Christopher Jackson
Damn I was actually thinking about moving there
Gavin Cooper
Peace this decade
Mars colonies next decade
Aging treatments the decade after that
We're all gonna make it (guys who have signed up for cryonics)
Josiah Peterson
Unfortunately for us, once the happening really happens. There will be no turning back.
Samuel Russell
Mostly hispanics, but there's everything. One of the parks nearby is infested with Islanders. I mean, I went there last week and there were like 80 of them playing loud music etc.
But it's at the point that I walk a couple km and 50% or more of the people I see are hispanics. I've been talking about this with friends, who all agree that there's been a MAJOR change over the last few years. The most recent census (2010) says we're like 80% white, but I think it's closer to 60% now. Maybe lower.
Brandon Morris
Dubs of hope > DUBS OF TRUTH
Henry Jackson
Portland's not as bad as Vancouver has seemed, but it's still really bad.
Some people think it's spics fleeing Portland because Californians are driving the housing price up. I don't know, but my house has doubled in value in the last 4 years. A LOT of people are moving here. Most of them are not white.
Xavier Campbell
>all that shit going down in the 2010s >this is a 1970s model >they predicted this
Dylan Sanchez
I missed these threads.
Connor Powell
That's because we pushed all of them out of north Portland, except for the really shitty bits in NE. Central Portland's whiter than it's ever been. Too bad they're mostly pricks.
Henry Carter
and its going lower and lower wooooo!!!
Lucas Hill
>Madison Square Garden >Pale Horse
Goddamn it, Alan Moore is a genius.
Juan Anderson
YES YES YES!
Bentley Gonzalez
why did the zero hour threads stop? we need to keep them going, theyre always good.
Meh about the DB collapse though, I dont think it's going to be the happening everyone is waiting for. Happenings never happen when you wait for them.
This is all very scary, but the limits to growth model is flawed. It doesn't account for either technology nor the way that industrialization impacts human behaviour.
There is no concern about limited resources, because technological advancement has always found ways to either make more with less, or replace the resource entirely with something else. Further, as societies enter post-industrialization growth comes more and more and more from growth in human capital - which can grow infinitely and is not limited by physical resources - and less and less from consumption of resources. And we are reaching the point where catching resources from extraterrestrial sources is slowly growing more feasible.
Secondly, it doesn't account for the behaviour humans exhibit in response to industrialization. We're in generation NEET now, theoretically speaking. Japan is ahead a couple of decades. Prosperity does not encourage endless consumption. It encourages a fundamental nihilism, escapism, and long term reduction in both fertility and resource consumption. Assuming we don't experience widespread global collapse and a return to the dark ages, we are simply going to stabilize at a low population that is largely comprised of people that don't consume a lot of physical resources because all they're interested in is anime and vidya (which are produced by infinite human resources). Quite frankly, I would not in the least bit be surprised to see a widespread movement to virtual reality once they figure it out - at which point resource consumption becomes essentially zero.
Jayden Stewart
I feel sorry for your kids, if you ever manage to get laid. Youre going to fill their heads with such half-cooked garbage and they wont know the difference until its too late.
>My Dad told me that the world is going to become like this because everyone is going to be watching anime and oculus rift and we arent going to be consuming resources anymore
>no argument against decades of changing human behavior all pver the world and the projected end result of it >I feel sorry for your kids IT'S HAPPENING