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When you have population growth (or non-native settlers), they prop up the old. It's a pyramid scheme.

[usrusr]

And if it is not occasionally reset by natural catastrophes it will be reset by man-made ones. In the 1980ies we feared man, today we are blindly growing towards destruction (by population growth domestic or imported). Some people cite Japan as an example of failure, I see them as an example of sustainability: they abstain from the quick and easy wealth fix that could be had by pyramid-scheming.

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> When you have population growth (or non-native settlers), they prop up the old. It's a pyramid scheme.

It's literally a pyramid scheme: the population pyramid is supposed to have a broad base, but today it's upside down.