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Jiang says governments will encourage higher birthrates in order to replenish population after wartime decline.
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Population
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is that when war starts, you're going to have this rapid population decline, right? When that happens, you're going to have much more social..."
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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.
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.
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"...is that when war starts, you're going to have this rapid population decline, right? When that happens, you're going to have much more social..."
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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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"...very focused on economic growth. And what drives economic growth is population growth. So there's a real concern that as the population declines over..."
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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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"...region um with Israel being a small country with a small population that is incurring higher and higher level of date that privatizing more..."
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