Yeah, though, that won’t happen. Actually, you should get people in the west losing cars while other gain them in China and India. We will kind of have a balancing out of resource/energy per capita. As the west falls deeper into debt collapse it will push more people to lower resource consumption ratios while people increase theirs in the east – which really they can’t without the west dropping their consumption ratios given physical limitations in extraction rates.
Interestingly, it was the multiple decade debt orgy propelled the emerging economies to where they are. The question is will the east continue it’s development in the face of a general contraction in the west or will it stall as the whole world goes into a depression and just general state of disfunction.
Population wise we should see fertility rates continue to drop in the west, probably at a quicker rate not, which is good from a long term species survival and societal health stand-point. Bad from a short-term economic standpoint.
