diagnosis
He argues that eight billion people are possible primarily because the nation-state, not science by itself, created the political machinery for mass population growth.
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Population
He says only 10 to 20 percent of a population needs to commit to eschatology for a country to survive this kind of war.
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diagnosis
He identifies postwar American consumer capitalism as a unique system that grew the global population from about two billion to about eight billion and generated enormous wealth, including in China.
prediction
He predicts that because the consumer-capitalist system is unstable and there are too many people, at least half of humanity will die in World War III.
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He says the best weapon in 21st-century war is no longer planes or aircraft carriers but the targeted country's own population.
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diagnosis
He says there is no way around mass death because there are too many people and humans want to fight wars.
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model
He says only 10 to 20 percent of a population needs to commit to eschatology for a country to survive this kind of war.
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prediction
The post-World-War-II population boom under Pax Americana is unsustainable, and a severe crisis would trigger an extreme correction through food scarcity.
prediction
At current trends, Jiang says China could fall to about 600 million people by 2100.
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"...Now, in the 21st century, our goal is to use the population against the state, to turn the civilians against the government by sowing..."
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"billion people in this world, and most of us are not very happy with the state affairs? And scientists will tell you it's because..."
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"...so the nation state wanted science and technology to grow the population. Okay? That's why we had medicine and sanitation, okay? These innovations happened..."
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"It made a lot of people more wealthy. Think of the tremendous wealth that China has generated in the past 30, 40 years because..."
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"weapon in this war are no longer my planes and my aircraft carriers my best weapon is the Iranian people themselves that's what a..."
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"...intelligence, AI surveillance state. Because the best way to control your population, the magic population, is with an AI surveillance state. All right? So,..."
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"...most 10 to 20%. If 10 to 20 % of your population commit to this eschatology, then you will survive. Okay? And we have..."
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"...that you notice about this world is the sheer amount of population growth, where after World War II, because of Pax Americana. You see..."
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"have so many people, means, like, if there's a crisis, the population will see a massive shrink. Okay? You're like, okay, how? And, the..."
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"...rate by 2100 China will be at will be at a population about 600 million. That's still a lot of people man. Um okay...."
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"...we discussed, the percentage of immigrants as part of the total population, it's just rapidly increasing. So in Australia, it's almost a third now...."
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"Okay, so... There are many different reasons. There are different main factors going on, okay? But what's important is the rise of something called..."
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