Global Energy, GWP and Population Growth: what happened in 1972?

[Demeter]

5. China instituted the One-Child Policy, and enforced it

India went for aborting female fetuses.

South America had continual warfare, and a lot of falling away from Catholicism and into birth control. The Soviet Union devolved, with poor diet and worse public health, their expected life span shrank.

Don't underestimate the effects of the US economy on the world during that time. We were the only game in town. The US sneezed, a lot of the Third World died.

There are massive movements in nations, across continents. Riht now, we are all confronted with Corporate Globalism, which has over-reached and will come crashing down of its internal contradictions and propensity to rape and pillage.