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hot pockets, a generator to power my laptop (so I can browse biz), and monster energy drinks. enjoying these things in my bunker. the ultimate short is survival and enjoyment

>>11955729
This chart is so fucked up I can't even begin to comprehend it.
Why and who the fuck thought it would be a great idea to do this?

What is that blip after 8000 bc? The flood?

>>11956114
Time when nothing significant happened, so they skip those years.

>>11955729
I keep a ton of Xanax stashed. If shit breaks out I just down that with plenty of alcohol and die in my sleep.

>>11956099
A naive Christian from Iowa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

>>11956140
You might be sitting on a goldmine with that Xanax. Imagine shit hits the fan and the pharmaceutical supply lines dry up. 1 in 6 Americans are on some type of psych med - many of which you cannot simply stop cold turkey without dire consequences. Consequences which would only be amplified by the additional stress of being in a shit hits the fan situation. Having a large amount of benzos or SSRIs to barter with could prove very useful.

>>11955729
im not, im going down with the ship

>>11956172
Finally, a bit of advice you can't crib from all those Yugoslavian civil war vets.
(Yeah yeah cigs and alcohol, but they're not quite the same)

>>11955729
I'm shorting Africa in general and also China. Two places that are unsustainable

>>11955729
I live in America and own enough ammunition/firearms to make most people nervous. Everything is fine.

I also own a stockpile of everclear and rice.

>>11955729
This is what happens when you give billions of dollars in foreign aid every year to mud people that can't build a working civilization.

>>11956172
Hadn't thought of that.

I just hope the shelf life doesn't expire by the time shit breaks out. It's 3 years tops.

>>11956163
Eugh.
This will not fucking end well.

>>11955729
Keep in mind this chart is almost 20 years old and is now close to 8 billion

>>11956231
Yes but about a third of those people are supported by donations from Western civilization. If we stopped writing the checks for about 10 years, you would literally see the Earth's population fall to 5-6 billion.

>>11956215
It will sort itself out on the long run, but yes. By 2050 we will reach peak population and the entire world will be a shithole for a while.

>>11956215
Has there ever been a more clear graph of R vs K selection in human groups?

>>11956249
So why the fuck don't we do that?

Population figures are to this day mostly guesswork and extrapolation. Pretending we have any handle on the numbers of people who were living even 200 years ago is pure quackery, used to push the depopulation agenda.

>>11956114
>the flood
Actually pretty accurate ... but should be 3000bce. Would be interested to know preflood population.

>>11956212
All they knew how to do is excessively reproduce hoping that enough survive to form the next generation. Now that we are sending them food and medication most are surviving and reproducing at the same rate. We aren't solving any problems, we are growing them.

>>11956262
Because that's cruel and women vote.

>>11956249
This. Norman Borlaug put a bandaid on a bullethole. Earth has a carrying capacity and we will see it around 2040. Symptoms happening now.

>>11956306
It's not as cruel as the inevitable result of this in the long run. That's going to be some nightmare shit.

>>11956359
Yes, but that's the world we live in. Now you can figure out how to change it or how it will change.

>>11956376
Hide in a bunker somewhere or get the fuck off the planet frankly.

>>11956376
Like this.

>>11956114
>>11956280

>>11956250
Were already in decline. I can't imagine how bad shit will be in 30 years. Fortunately by then I'll either be rich on an island or Ill kill myself, so not my problem. Have fun being over run by Africans chinks and beaners.

>>11956392
This but unironically.

>>11956444
I'm not being ironic, I'm dead serious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_terrestrial_exoplanet_candidates
Get yourself a Spacex BFR rig with a solar sail for long haul, modify it to a generational ark ship, done and done.

>>11956631
Personally, I think space is way too hostile for people to survive long-term. We still haven't figured out how to deal with low gravity and its effects on bones, or prolonged exposure to cosmic radiation, for example.

Our biology is way too fragile.

Just wait till the solar minimum takes effect

>>11956676
Start with a cloud city above Venus. The atmosphere is thick enough that floating above it is possible.
>Similar gravity to earth, so we need not worry about bone degradation.
>CO2 atmosphere we can extract Oxygen from
>Byproduct of extracting Oxygen is Carbon we can build with
>Easy to launch in and out of from that high in the atmosphere.
>Need to just find a source of water and then basics are taken care of.

>>11956212
Teotihuacán/Tenochtitlán + recently discovered 60k maya city

what doesn't go bad?
honey, high proof alcohol, MREs

>>11955729
What is there to short. Everyone and everything will be fucked. It will be exactly like the road

I used to have a collection of mdma to take before I kill myself when SHTF but I took it all over the course of 3 and a half years

>>11956676
Put the watery bits of the ark ship around life support to act as shielding. Also include a CRISPR contingent that tries to mutate each new generation to be more resistant to the hazards of space.

>>11956733
I had heard this was one of the least practical space colony proposals

>>11956215

你怕了妈?

>>11956766
Unironically this

>>11956249
That's not remotely true lmao. You think westerners are writing checks to feed Chinese mainlanders and Indians?

>>11956748
These snow niggers don't even know European history. You expect them to know about Mayans?

>>11956766
>>11956963
cucks

>>11956748
>>11957016
You're using the same logic as pajeets saying "India superpower 2020".