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Sure sounds familiar doesn't it. US now has a declining population and it's increasingly relying on immigrants from Latin America for labor while treating them as subhuman and giving them no rights. I mean what could go wrong here.
Oh yeah, I forgot all about that. There was a plague too as I recall.
so I got curious, and turns out there was a plague and it's also linked to climate change https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-roman-empires-worst-plagues-were-linked-to-climate-change/
Yup, there's actually a really fun podcast on the fall of Rome that goes into a lot of social, environmental, and economic issues that came together https://wondery.com/shows/the-fall-of-rome-podcast/
There is also old but interesting book about social history of Rome by Geza Alfoldy, Hungarian historian who at first claim he's not using marxist methods, but the book is really full of it.
neat!
Oh yeah I now what you mean. :)