Bosnia and Herzegovina has another 650 years or so. Macau has about the same. Germany has just over 1500 years and Brazil another 3000 years. Until what? Until their populations disappear entirely! Read more…
I’m seeing good articles like these more and more. Surely the citizens of these countries must know what’s up. But why aren’t they doing anything about it? Perhaps it’s the “someone else will solve the problem. I don’t have to do anything” mentality.
Steven Malanga
In Kamikatsu, on the Japanese island of Shikoku, officials have set up an agricultural cooperative whose members log on to computers daily to check the fluctuating prices of the produce that they grow. Then they go out and pick whatever is fetching the best price that day. Unusual, yes, but what’s truly surprising about this cooperative is the average age of its members: 70. In a country where lots of folks retire at 60, Kamikatsu’s residents are working well into their senior years—and they’re doing so not only to buoy retirement earnings but also to energize the local economy. With nearly half of the town’s residents 65 and older, the government realized that there simply wasn’t enough of a traditional workforce available to build or staff most typical industries. Read more…
By Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse
Why are people averting their eyes from the coming collapse of population growth?
Demographic Winter is an independently produced film describing the consequences of the population collapse of industrialized countries. I have been amazed at the response, or I should say, lack of response to this film. Read more…
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