From: "Russell Coker" <russell@coker.com.au>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territor...
Quickly scan the above page and you'll notice the correlation between standard of living and birth rate.
What about correlation between consumption of natural resources and birth rate? Maybe we are just rabbits running out of "food" so nature tells us (with the help of the pill) to stop multiplying? Maybe nature is smarter than us, after all;-) China, fuelling our wealth: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/video/2014-04/22/c_133280627.htm Meanwhile, Ministry of Environmental Protection also says around 280 million Chinese people exposed to unsafe drinking water. The ministry reported that over 70 percent of water from lakes, and 60 percent of underground water across the country does not meet the national safety standard. "Brain-jumping" to our "pension crisis": Is it smart to work "harder" (longer) instead of really smarter and less? At the moment our economic system looks a bit like a hamster wheel: we are running faster and faster and when we pause we get mangled by it. I do not believe that this system has a long term future, actually. One day all hamsters will drop dead by exhaustion. Regards Peter