This damn crisis has me on edge about the future. I'm not losing sleep over the thought of seeing a dwindling birthrate fly over my house tomorrow but the timeframe for when we've hit crisis mode is vague, and I suspect we won't know that it's 'begun' until the fucked levels hit waist-high. The fact that we don't have that clear timeframe and the fact that people seem to be more-so in favor of cutting costs and hiding the problem through infinite jeets makes me doom a lot and I start to think we won't see proper solutions until it's looming directly overhead, at which point bracing for impact won't help.
Maybe I'm just pessimistic, and I won't pretend that I'm some expert on the topic, it's possible the retardation levels on my take are off the charts. That being said, I suspect the issues that the US faces about this are still behind Canada and the UK/EU. If they start to really bear the brunt over it, perhaps we'll see people over here say "You know what? Maybe that doesn't look so fun," and we see actual attempts to mitigate this instead of dumping all of Punjab in our backyards. Optimistic? Easily, but I won't dismiss the possibility just because of that.