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How Will This Impact On Us In The Future
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There is an overwhelming need for a remarkable global decline in the number of children women are having, say anyone with any sense. Resources are limited, as is the planet's ability to cope the waste animals, especially humans, produce. We need more that one planet to maintain the existing population at a decently high lifestyle. Maybe some kind of correction is occurring to reduce present population sizes.
"He thinks workplaces are going to have to change and even the idea of retiring at 68, the current maximum in the UK, will be unsustainable."
This is nonsense. There is only a problem if insufficient folk of working age exist and are employed. But we've not had 100% employment. There are those surplus to working requirements already, thus the dole queue. It's the typical case of assuming one thing means another without thinking it through. We can be an age heavy society and still carry on. And with fewer unemployed younger folk.
This is nonsense. There is only a problem if insufficient folk of working age exist and are employed. But we've not had 100% employment. There are those surplus to working requirements already, thus the dole queue. It's the typical case of assuming one thing means another without thinking it through. We can be an age heavy society and still carry on. And with fewer unemployed younger folk.
That's more or less what the two eminent people conclude, emmie. The only 'up' side is less strain on our resources but, you will note the reports conclude that the population isn't changing. And if the mean is becoming older, more strain will be put on healthcare and heating / cooling (as older people are more vulnerable to extremes of temperature).
"He thinks workplaces are going to have to change and even the idea of retiring at 68, the current maximum in the UK, will be unsustainable. " - I'd like to see that statement justified. When I was 14 the world population was approx half what it is now and men retired at 65. I know there are other factors but I can't see how having less children is anything other than a good thing.
Tora, it means that there will be fewer working age people, unless they raise the retirement age, meaning that the GDP of affected countries will fall.
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That's not the biggest thing economically, emmie. Every country runs an enormous debt against borrowing. If there are less working age people, the GDP falls meaning the debt is less serviceable. Pension pots become severely affected (depleted) and so the elderly are a greater burden on society through benefits. It's quite a viscous circle.
