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[Children Of Men] What was it like at the beginning?

There's a photograph of Jasper in 2010 receiving a political cartoonist award, so they were still having awards at the beginning of the infertility crisis.

Were the first five or so years of the crisis fairly normal, then? Were people a little worried, but "Oh, the scientists will fix it"?

At what point did things go from "this is bad, I guess" to what society is like in the movie?
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At first, there was utter panic, possibly even approaching the kind seen in the film. People took it as a clear sign that whatever eschatology they believed in was about to come to pass. But when God did not descend from the heavens to pass final judgement, the first year of chaos came to an end.

By the times they were starting to mass close schools, conditions began a steady degeneration. Like the Great Depression, except without a principally economic source and without any possible cure but the obvious.

After ten or so years, people began to believe that there would never be a solution. This is where the nations of the world began settling their last vendettas while they still could. Societies began collapsing around here. Nukes probably came out.