[goldstategop]

Europe is dying.... most societies are already below replacement levels. Imagine an empty continent in two centuries. To think of the alarmists who warned us forty years ago of the specter of overpopulation. If anything, the great threat today is underpopulation. Suddenly, demography is back in the news.

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[Hermann the Cherusker]

Europe is dying.... most societies are already below replacement levels. Imagine an empty continent in two centuries. To think of the alarmists who warned us forty years ago of the specter of overpopulation. If anything, the great threat today is underpopulation. Suddenly, demography is back in the news.

Europe is shrinking. But have a little perspective.

Germany + France + England + Italy + Poland + Spain + Netherlands + Belgium + Austria + Hungary + Portugal + Switzerland + Scandanavia + Czechoslovakia + Romania + Yugoslavia + Bulgaria + Greece + Baltics + Ukraine + Belorussia + Ireland = 590 million people, or twice the population of the US in 1/2 of the land.

Even losing 100-200 million to declining fertility would leave them with plenty of people.