Look on my Works ye Mighty, and despair!
“If they cannot be bothered to reproduce, why should any European soldier sacrifice himself for future generations that never will be born?”
-Why Europe chooses extinction by Spengler (hat tip to Fabius)
The following map is taken from Wikipedia and edited by me to emphasise the difference. The map shows the birth rate per country (births/1000 person), I changed the nine colours to three.
The red countries are all dying out, the blue represent the inflection point and the green are the only countries with potential to grow.
It seems that modern western social order is not capable of chewing gum and walking at the same time. Reproduction is a necessary condition in the biological definition of ‘life’; societies that cannot reproduce themselves are dead.
