TPP goes forward.

[hifiguy]

110. It won't be needed.

The system is going to collapse, because things that cannot go on forever won't. It's not going to be something on the order of a nuclear winter, but there will be a lot of hardship when capitalism finally implodes, as its own logic dictates it must. I'd estimate (read - pull out of my ass) that about 33-40% of the world population is going to die off. Which will be good for the long term survival of the species. This planet cannot possibly accommodate 7-8 billion people save in the direst sort of poverty for all, save for the Owning Class.

I am not saying that things are going to look like "The Stand," but rather a lot of people may well go back to living off the land for a generation or two while a new kind of civilization is rebuilt.

The die off will come about, or be directly facilitated by the plutocracy, by means of disease, neglect, starvation and exposure, in other words, poverty. At least assuming that asteroid doesn't hit. And the effects of all these things will be aggravated by climate change and the submersion of numerous coastal cities around the world.

Capitalists, like Doctor Frankenstein, have created the thing that will inevitably destroy them. I hope it takes them out before it destroys the planet and the human species.