http://newswhip.ie/n...raphic-collapse
Demography is destiny. This axiom is underlined by HSBC’s “World in 2050″ survey.
The bank’s detailed analysis is based on the theoretical work of Harvard professor Robert Barro. It analyzes everything from fertility rates to education levels and the rule of law, and predicts that the world’s economic output will triple by 2050, provided the major states can avoid conflict. However, a grim future seems assured for much of continental Europe.
A birth rate of 2.1 children per woman will keep a society stable in population terms. However, according to the Daily Telegraph: “The low fertility of Korea (1.1), Singapore (1.2) Germany (1.3), Poland (1.3), Italy (1.4), Spain (1.4) and Russia (1.4), more or less dooms these countries to aging crises and population decline unless they open the floodgates to immigration.”
This is a serious problem we all need to discuss. It is very difficult to see any other solution to it than, as members of this forum acknowledge, extend healthy lifespan very soon.