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The many tons of nuclear waste should have started being fuel for waste using Gen IV reactors back in 1994 (read Hansen's "Storms of MY Grandchildren"). I agree, most of the holidays and festivals are ridiculous and ways for people to consume more. The advertizing is sickening. Too many sales people, too many advertisers, too many spammers, and first, way too many people.
The pre-Columbian North America had mostly migration/traveling bands of people. Some stayed in one place until long term drought hit, and others had basically summer and winter camp spots. The wise ones would get them to move when resources and game started to get low, and their waste piles too deep and smelly. When there were too many, they would go to war with nearby tribes.
When the Vikings "discovered" America in 998 and set up a village, they eventually had to join the Chippewa to survive the harsh winters. So the Chippewas are the only tribe with all five genetic markers of the Solutrians of France. Whites are closest to the tribes of both North and South America, genetically.
India and China have both been far beyond long term interglacial sustainability for over a thousand years, suffering numerous plagues, famines, and wars because of it. That was at the agrarian society level with some water powered mills and factories making tools and other things. In those places the need would be to get to what the population was at least 1400 years ago. Similar in Europe and the middle east, and islands. The Americas were at sustainable population long term when Columbus came with the Spanish conquest.
Seeing the mass die-off of humanity can not be stopped, after 2050 there will be little industrialization. With increasing climate fluctuation failing crops every third year or less, the agrarian society will have a tough go especially with roving bands of thieves and killers. With aquifers dry and most soil ruined, the population will not be able to rise much, and in fact will decrease as temperatures rise and other pollution or geologic events happen. The day of population zero will be when the surface is too inhospitable for human life. Underground and space colonies may or may not last very much longer. The underground colonies will run out of fuel or some critical supplies and the surface will not provide them sometime in the over 200K year resequestration period. The space voyager colonies may find a good planet, but the odds are against it. If they do, they probably will not return to Earth in several million years when it is liveable for humans (maybe) again.
Never stop education is my opinion, even in a failing ecosystem.
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“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”― Chief Seattle
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