Is there a shortage of people anywhere? There are twice as many as there were fifty years ago and ....
Were you asleep during the immigration debate?
The forces that support illegal immigration’s talking point is that there is a labor SHORTAGE that needs to be addressed by immigration. An associated arguement was that our Social Security system is going broke because of a SHORTAGE of contributors.
In Europe there are cities that are having problems maintaining their sewer systems that were designed for larger populations.
When someone says “ageing population” you need to hear “SHORTAGE” of young people.
Russia
http://www.usd.edu/~clehmann/pop_prob/russia/aging_population.shtml
Japan
http://www.stat.go.jp/English/data/handbook/c02cont.htm
Italy
http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/1081/Population_ageing:_Facing_the_challenge.html
C’mon whale man get in touch with a science called Demographics.
The problem 50 years ago was overpopulation. Now it is underpopulation. Then it was the coming Ice Age. Now it is Global Warming. I won’t be climbing on any of these showboats.