In the event of a serious war, I do not see how a side that is losing due to satellites does not just end up creating the Kessler Syndrome. Seems like the the continuation of scorched earth warfare in modern times.
It is kinda like saying well the church did not enact the crusades it was the various kings and sovereigns who did. Well yes, that is true, but the church through its messaging put it into motion.
From my extensive experience of a few different suburbs, neighborhoods are often separated by large stretches of nature. Perhaps we have a different understanding of what a suburb is, but they absolutely contain way more nature than any city.
As someone who lives in a suburb, every time I visit a city and go to a city park I always am like "is this it?" Access to nature is far greater in the suburbs and it is not even close.
I would also add that nature is at its best when there is not many people, or better yet no people around you. Human dense places always strike me as very unnatural.
Not to mention that even absent immigration, internal populations will rebound due to the high reproductive rate of certain segments(read religious) of the population.
Given current projections, 200 years from now most of the population in the United States will be Amish.
The use of "50- year low" in title of the article is manipulative in my opinion. Goldman Sachs says the employment rate is going back to 2019 and early 2020 levels.