Ok, my bad for going off topic before and basically after I wrote it all down I also decided my old friends should just quietly feck off and die.
BUT following the hijacked thread with interest I can confidently say: EVERYTHING WILL BE JUST FINE!
Because we are on or around Peak-People now or soon to be in this (some say decade) century.
This demographic catastrophe should resolve all the problems previously mentioned.
1) falling population will concentrate all corporate attention on selling fewer goods to fewer people and trying to maintain an economic balance and pay the shareholders off. Revolving doors hiring and corporate bribery will have no effect on the dropping populations of sheep (consumers).
2) AI will achieve super intelligence within the next 4 to 6 years and slowly or quickly take over the reins of government, production and supply. Look for Guaranteed Universal Incomes (GUI) around the world to supplant the mass loss of jobs (in production and white collar first) through automation. AI will see (as do all non-civil servants) immediately that pollution is an horrendous waste of time, ecology and money.
3) With loads of free time on their hands our children/grandchildren will realize (as many already do) what a waste of time working for a boss is and the freedom of GUI will allow them to seek true happiness in endeavors of the mind and body more usual in Ubud than Detroit. The rest of us can chase small, beautiful brown women, go fishing, learn the bosa nova, drink Bintang all or hunt any other freedom called "retirement" now.
Who knows, us crusty, old men may well be the Gurus (followed by millions, if not billions) or "influencers" of the near future on how to spend all those countless free hours, days, months, years with pleasure. So keep up the good work for
roof.
Cheers!