Tuesday, February 14, 2012
"The fifth horseman of the apocalypse"
If you live long enough, everything you have heard or learned seems to get turned upside down.
We should learn by that, and not buy into grand theories too quickly.
I think this turnabout will surprise you...
We should learn by that, and not buy into grand theories too quickly.
I think this turnabout will surprise you...
At the Asia Times website, "Spengler" (David Goldman) shares this information, along with supporting explanations:
"Population decline is the elephant in the world's living room. As a matter of arithmetic, we know that the social life of most developed countries will break down within two generations. Two out of three Italians and three of four Japanese will be elderly dependents by 2050. [1] If present fertility rates hold, the number of Germans will fall by 98% over the next two centuries. No pension and health care system can support such an inverted population pyramid. Nor is the problem limited to the industrial nations. Fertility is falling at even faster rates - indeed, at rates never before registered anywhere - in the Muslim world. The
world's population will fall by as much as a fifth between the middle and the end of the 21st century, by far the worst decline in human history."
