Quote from: K-Dog on Sep 13, 2023, 11:59 AMAn Inconvenient Apocalypse doesn't describe how decline in population will occur, or discuss the enormous trauma elimination of the majority of humanity will certainly inflict on all those left over.

This falls into the "Reality follows Fiction." or  "Fiction anticipates Reality folders on your hard drive.

Basically this is the plot of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Avengers Endgame film, where the villain Thanos instantly wipes out half the population of every planet in the Universe inhabited by intelligent life with a snap of his fingers, after the acquisition of the 6 "Infinity Stones".  We only get to see the emotional effect on the Superpower Avenger subset of the population of Earth however, but the viewer is expected to extend this outcome to all the other earthlings and aliens on other planets also.

The characters are all suitably emotionally devastated and the sets also empty of people, although emptier than you would expect with only half the people gone.  What was unrea;istic though is that otherwise the planet seemed to be operating basically the same way with all the lights working, trash getting picked up, carz driving around and so forth.  This is quite unrealistic, and would be even more unrealistic if the population was cut by 75%, even if that took a few years of an epidemic to accomplish.

It's really impossible to make an accurate prediction of how things will look after a population knockdown of this magnitude, other than to say society if it still holds together and functions at all will still look anything at all like it looks now.  I suspect it will be a hot mess, nothing like the Final Solution and route to a more wonderful world that Thanos predicts it will be.

However it will end up though, you can be sure it most certainly WILL come, and unlike the Avengers we won't be able to go back in time to bring it back to the way it was..

RE.