HOW AN AGEING POPULATION WILL CHANGE THE WORLD - BBC NEWS
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This is a whole load of bullshit
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Pakistani men think that their families will are for them in their old age and have lots of children...quite a few of them don't get proper jobs and become terrorists who will destroy global peace...so how can terrorists take care of their aged parents?
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US women are having FEWER children
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The time has come to launch a new war against population ... better a low fertility rate of 1.5. - 1.6 children per woman (if it goes to Singaporean levels like 0.8 we can worry). It can solve many problems such as the water crisis, global warming, environmental degradation. It will lead to better education and boost family savings. Ageing is not such a major problem as imagined. Most countries have come up with plans to address ageing. Plus, people can save more. Anyway most parents won't depend on their children in old age in futire.
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Would like to suggest viewers to check out Aubrey de Grey and if we really want a future free from illness of ageing then donate money to SENS foundation and any other charity dedicated to fighting this cause.
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je sait pas si tu me verra mais mets un pouce a mon commentaire si toi aussi tu fait le devoir d'anglais plus !!!
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Population has been aging sine the humans first appeared and will continue to do so. Get used to it a stop whining.
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What a great report . Directly to the core .
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The next few decades are going to be very interesting.
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Many so-called experts think that developing countries like Nigeria, India, Pakistan, etc. are at an advantage because of population growth (they call it 'demographic dividend').
It is, actually, a 'population time bomb'. With limited resources, especially land, water and fuel, these countries are at a huge disadvantage unless there is a mass immigration to ageing countries like Japan and Germany. -
getting tired of this propgandha not even gonna watch it we are living not so long now there are just more of for the gloablists to kill wat a shame come on you sick bas##s give me my flu vaccines to kill me off
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Very ineresting news and useful.
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Countries will gradually adjust their cultures to meet the new demographic changes.
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America is a imperialist business, not a country.
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I hear a lot of people bothered and annoyed at africa for high population and stuff, still most africans might be replaced by another generation in maybe 40 years from now, that's how low life expectancy is there! Now I hear in the developed world there is very low fertility rates and that there is old population replacing the newer generation faster than ever, so I wonder which is worse, a continent like Africa which has a high fertility rate and low life expectancy or a continent like europe which has a low fertility rate, but a high life expectancy rate! I see in 50 years from now a lot of 3rd world countries immigrants having to migrate to those developed nations to support those elderly ones! But I might be wrong because, first you can never be one hundred percent secure of these statistics and secondly, maybe those developed nations will discover new ways to look after their elderly (technology wise) thus somehow replacing the need of some migrants! But these statistics are surely worrisome for those developed nations! They better come up with ways to start getting those young people to reproduce again! And I doubt Africa has a high population compared to europe, Africa is three times the size of europe, maybe food insecurity may lead some to think that way!
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I think these will be people who will want to care for themselves.
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... for the worse.
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I think we had it right when families stayed together and everyone looked after each other. The elderly looking after the children is better than putting them day care and children looking after their aging parents is better than putting them in old age homes.
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´´wrap that rascal!´´ ´´paz´´ # uno
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