Posted on 02/23/2024 9:05:47 PM PST by SeekAndFind
As the UN commemorates World Day of Social Justice on February 20, we’re taking a look at one of the key challenges the world is facing in the coming decades: the gradual and largely irreversible shift towards an older population. According to the United Nations Population Division, the number of persons aged 65 and older is expected to double over the next three decades, reaching 1.6 billion in 2050.
As the following chart shows, Asia is at the forefront of this trend, with Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan expected to have the highest share of people aged 65 and older by 2050. While Japan is famous for its old population and currently topping the list, other Asian economies are in the middle of a significant shift, as life expectancy has rapidly improved over the last decades and continues to do so. By 2050, roughly 40 percent of the populations of Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan are expected to be 65 and older, which makes a huge difference to levels currently observed in highly developed regions, where the share of older people is in the low 20s.
“Population ageing is a defining global trend of our time,” the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs writes in its World Social Report 2023, calling it a “major success story” that brings both challenges and opportunities. One of the main challenges for countries with ageing populations is to ensure that the economy can support the consumption needs of a growing number of older people, be it by raising the legal retirement age, removing barriers to voluntary labor force participation of older people or by ensuring equitable access to education, health care and working opportunities throughout the lifespan, which can help to boost economic security at older ages.
Especially countries in the early stages of the demographic shift have the opportunity to plan ahead and implement the right measures ahead of time, to effectively manage the challenges that come with an ageing population.
Will the young folks end up being Atlas Shrugged? Something’s gotta be give. More bigger families to overpopulate the planet. Genocide for criminals and death panels for the old folk. Problem solved.
Just make 65 the new 25.
I still have that album.
“More bigger families”
The only way that happens in Europe and North America is if Christianity makes a comeback. That’s not looking likely at the moment, but there’s always hope.
The planet doesn’t need more people.
The planet doesn’t need more people.
Societies need more younger people. “The planet” doesn’t care what creatures on it surface do.
I am, of course, referring to the surface of the planet.
And we’ve already pretty much screwed that up.
Barely a fish from a lake or stream here in the US is safe to eat. We’re ruining the oceans. Much of our soil is bad too. (And now Gates and Soros are about to blast chemicals into the air to block the sun, too!)
And what about all the “Oh, no—with our technology we don’t need all these human workers!”, “Useless eaters!”
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So do I, also their second album “That High Lonesome Sound”. I used to like to play Old & In the Way and then ask people if they knew who was playing banjo. A lot of Deadheads didn’t believe it until I’d show them the album cover (with that great Greg Irons drawing).
And Vassar Clements was perhaps the best bluegrass fiddler ever, IMO.
Vassar could have made it as a guitar player. He was awesome.
I heard somewhere that he played guitar when starting out, but thought that the fiddle was more challenging. Jerry Garcia also played fiddle a bit in his early days as a folkie. Most of those guys could pretty much play anything.
Anything with strings on it. Like Sam Bush.
Well, yeah, maybe not horns and such.
Remember it is down the road not across the street.
Yes, they are. Very few US lakes and/or rivers are have fish that are not safe to eat. And those that are unsafe are actually making a come back. Slow yes, but as long as they have life in them they will clean themselves up.
We’re ruining the oceans.
We could eliminate China as they are the ones fishing out the oceans. And dumping in plastic.
Much of our soil is bad too.
No. It isn't.
You live in a city don't you.
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