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2026-04-18 -Great Cultural Revolution

The World Is Running Out of People‐and the Next 40 Years Could Determine the Fate of Humanity

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Posted by Besoeker 2026-04-18 01:09|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1788 views ] Top

1 A population bottleneck in human evolution refers to a significant reduction in the size of the human ancestor population, which may have occurred around 930,000 years ago, reducing numbers to as few as 1,280 individuals for approximately 117,000 years. This event likely resulted from severe climate changes and had lasting effects on genetic diversity.

I think we're far from worrying about running out of people. TW is on point.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-04-18 07:15|| 2026-04-18 07:15|| Front Page Top

2 Fortunately there is an established procedure for creating new people.

Posted by Matt 2026-04-18 09:14|| 2026-04-18 09:14|| Front Page Top

3 Like when disney- talks about who watches their shows?

Posted by swksvolFF 2026-04-18 09:19|| 2026-04-18 09:19|| Front Page Top

4 The little brats are expensive to have & keep.

Posted by Chantry 2026-04-18 11:28|| 2026-04-18 11:28|| Front Page Top

5 This is all absurdly dire. Elon Musk is about to flood the labor market with Optimus 3 by the end of 2026 starting with 1,000,000 units a year. So there will be no labor shortage ever again, not ever.

Now that Trump is cutting off student loans for useless degrees, human capital will be increasingly less misdirected and more productive lives will result.

Posted by Dscott8186 2026-04-18 12:51|| 2026-04-18 12:51|| Front Page Top

6 Popular Mechanics is an interesting source for social commentary.

Posted by ed in texas 2026-04-18 13:36|| 2026-04-18 13:36|| Front Page Top

7 I used to read it decades ago. My neighbor subscribed and tried to give me his after he read the. I said no, thanks, after the first one. All climate change, lib piffle crap

Posted by Frank G 2026-04-18 14:42|| 2026-04-18 14:42|| Front Page Top

8 The world population is falling and getting older. Something our cultures have never had to deal with in our history as there are simply not enough young people or people having kids.

Most of these are the more liberal types so the world will get more conservative over the next 100 years but it will be a strange 100 years.

Posted by DarthVader 2026-04-18 15:21|| 2026-04-18 15:21|| Front Page Top

9 Popular Mechanics is an interesting source for social commentary.

I read it for the birdhouse plans.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-04-18 17:39|| 2026-04-18 17:39|| Front Page Top

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