Chip C. Woltz
Feb 1, 2024

The collapse will result from running out of affordable fossil fuels. The lack of fossil fuels leads to the lack of fertilizer, lack of transportation, lack of minerals, and everything else. Fossil fuels will get progressively more expensive and more difficult to obtain. This will be a decades long decline, but certainly by 2100, the world will be a completely different place, with a much smaller population.

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