[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.

[cookcounty]

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

Maybe so, but they will still have an inverted age demographic (many more welfare-using old people than tax-paying young people) which will lead to economic depression and chaos.

There's a Paris- based writer named Claire Berlinski. Read her Menace in Europe, and you won't be able to sleep for 3 nights. It's going to get very nasty over there.