Check out Stanley Kurtz's new piece for Policy Review -- Demographics and the Culture War. It's more exciting than it sounds.
With something to intrigue or annoy just about anyone, Kurtz takes a peek at our possible future. Turn everything the ZPGers were saying in the 70's about Population Explosion on its head, and you have the article. Kurtz makes a case for a dangerous population decline, and backs it up with stats. Then he explores the economic, cultural and political ramifications of it all.
Plus you get weird bits like this: "The United Nations estimates that by 2050, 42 percent of all people in Italy and Japan will be aged 60 or older."
I'm looking into a shuttleboard franchise.
Posted by Discoshaman at février 5, 2005 11:16 PM | TrackBack
If you haven't read "The Population Bomb" yet, put it on the list for days you need amusing and datedly inflammatory reads.
Posted by: The Duchess at février 6, 2005 10:04 PM