It’s 2026, Earth’s pop. is 8.3 billion people. I genuinely think we are going to be 2/3 this in ~5 years.
You think that 2.75 Billion people are going to die in the next 5 years?
Sorry - I can't get past that. It's possible I'd read an article that had this conclusion, as shocking as that would be - if it had a more credible bit of evidence than "I genuinely think". I also don't know what WHS is. I would normally google that if I wanted to be informed by the article, but yeah - I've already dismissed its contents as crazy and stopped being interested.
I'm being harsh, I apologise about that. Normally I'd have closed the tab and never thought about it again. But you're asking for criticism and appear to be new at this. As a reader of lots of articles, I approach them something like:
Is this plausible? No? Who is saying it? Some random on the Internet? What's their source? "Trust me bro"?
If you have bona fides on the topic, be clearer about what they are. If you have data to back your conclusion up, be clearer about that before you drop a bombshell like '3 Billion people are going to die in the next few years'.
From the bits I read/skimmed, you appear to be saying that present levels of food production are relying on artificial fertiliser, which in-turn relies on LNG to be produced. But you haven't made clear is what's changing, why this is a problem, why we can't use alternate fertiliser sources, what trends you are already seeing to demonstrate that you're not projecting everything.
It's a strange world. It isn't that there aren't enough houses - well not just that. It's that too many houses are owned by people who do not live in them.
Mr. and Mrs. Boomer and their property portfolio of seven homes are suppressing supply for six other people/families.
Then you have Mr. Foreign who has a place or two in Australia as a safe way to secure wealth in a place out of reach of his own government who might one day decide to simply take over all his assets.
50 years of successive Australian governments have been encouraging investment in real estate. I'm sure there were great reasons for it initially like keeping wealth within the nation. But now we've gone too far.
If we could get all those property investors to sell their properties, we'd go a long way toward meeting housing demand with existing supply.