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Overshoot.
Reflected by massive explosion in population, gobbling up the easiest to access resources, especially the easily extractable and plentiful fossil fuels. The era of cheap energy is over. We'll have fossil fuels for quite a while yet, but our economy expanded and our wealth was accumulated mostly on sub $20/barrel oil. The economy of expansion and consumerism has been kept afloat the past 20 years or so via accounting fraud (ie, debt and printing), and that party is coming to an end as well.
The contraction ahead will result in mass infighting for the shrinking pie as standards of living drop, especially here in the United States, as our Empire has just about run its course, and is in steep decline. It won't necessarily crash in a week, but will grind down relentlessly, year over year, as the poor Boomers get stiffed on Social Security, the rich Boomers have their 401K accounts frozen by .gov, and the younger generations seek revenge. There will be the occasional crises along the way (war, oil embargo/rationing, famine, virus outbreak, etc.), but keep your eyes open and you'll also see the less obvious decline - infrastructure crumbling, bankruptcies, stagflation, utility outages, etc.
The demographics of the PA forum are heavily tilted to the older and wealthier class of Americans, many of whom haven't experienced the negative side of what's coming - yet. But if you connect the dots, the health and the trend of the sport we love is a canary in the coal mine of sorts....
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