Underpopulation is the new overpopulation. “Imagine entire regions where everyone is 70 or older. Imagine governments laying out huge bonuses for immigrants and mothers with lots of children. Imagine a gig economy filled with grandparents and Super Bowl ads promoting procreation.” NYT: Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications. “Fewer babies’ cries. More abandoned homes. Toward the middle of this century, as deaths start to exceed births, changes will come that are hard to fathom.” On the plus side, the Bingo night pot sizes will be enormous. (Go ahead and shake your head, but dad jokes are also going to be huge.)