Jiang predicts that over the next few decades climate change, global conflict, civil discontent, and economic collapse will produce massive population decline.
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Population Decline
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Jiang predicts that after this contraction societies will be forced toward greater compassion, responsibility, resilience, and local accountability, which in turn will screen out psychopaths more effectively.
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"...collapse like like for millions of reasons you're gonna have massive population decline um and once you have massive population decline then societies will..."
"the world we live in, there are lots of contradictions, there are lots of conflicts, and these conflicts and contradictions will have to resolve..."
"...energy, and this would mean that we would see a steep population decline over the next 10 years."
"...is population growth. So there's a real concern that as the population declines over time, China's economy will stagnate. But personally, I think that..."
"...in the world, OK, except for Israel, there is a steep population decline. The fertility rate has gone way down. The Southeast Asian economies,..."
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