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(10-29-2012 06:42 AM)Way Cool Jr Wrote:  

I believe that apart from USA, the nations that will have more problems are the ones in Western Europe that have high population and little natural resources.
I'm especially talking about UK, France and Italy that have each about 60 million people and a lack of resources and space (this happens to a lesser degree to France that has much more open space and land).
Taking Italy as an example I think that my country is overpopulated and there is too competition for every job, especially in this period of crisis.
The thing that worries me the most on an ecological and social degree is that population in the world is exploding at such a fast pace, we're 7 billions and counting, while the natural resources are declining...
While we in our Western societies have more and more older people, other nations especially in Asia are booming, also because the presence/lack of feminism.
I still don't know how we will manage to get out of this situation but the future seems gray for the majority of the population.

Way Cool Jr epitomizes the kind of thinking the documentary was critical of (no offense).

Way Cool Jr thinks there are too many people in his country when in reality, everyone is getting older and dying off and the younger generation can't get a job because the older generation is retiring en mass.

This documentary provided so many good points (although I hate how melodramatic it is) and one myth is that, "Shouldn't population decline mean more jobs for the next generation?"

After all, it's less competition! Right?



WRONG. That's not how economies work. The more young people that are present, the more people are working and earning cash to spend! The more people are spending, the more job opportunities there are.

If everyone is getting old and retiring, that means less cash is being spent, which means there isn't a great a need for jobs to produce stuff.

Thus the countries with the worst demographics (Italy, Spain, Greece) are also the ones with the highest youth unemployment.