[dorlomin]

Used to be the US this we all know, but since 2003 it has been......




Nope wrong if you were going to say China, or even Japan.....


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7234353.stm

The Federal Republic of Germany.

Kinda makes the UK and US hang there heads in shame. Shows that China is not the all conquering giant that people claim it is quite yet. It is possible for a relatively mid sized European country to still produce more stuff (wont use the word crap for german machines) that the world wants to buy, even with the dollar being openly depreciated.

It wont last, but it shows how weak the anglo nations have capitulated in manufacturing.

[Nicholai]

Die Germans ahh a very industrious pee-poll. Vee have shown diss in hour histor-ee ant our culture.

[Plantagenet]

The Germans are a very OLD people. The birth rate there is so low that the number of unproductive retirees will inevitably explode and the number of workers and the overall population will drop by 10% over the next 25 years.

Germany is on the verge of demographic disaster.

[Plantagenet]

The population of Germany is becoming progressively more elderly, and this article focuses on the causes and implications of that trend. We discuss the demographic processes that occurred in Germany in the second half of the 20th century and describe the developments that the population of Germany will undergo in the next 50 years, which promise to exert a profound influence on the economic and social future of the country.

Citation: E. Hoffmann, S. Menning, A Century of Population Aging in Germany. Sci. Aging Knowl. Environ. 2004 (37), pe35 (2004).

[lawnchair]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'G')ermany is on the verge of demographic disaster.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lawnchair', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'G')ermany is on the verge of demographic disaster.

[frankthetank]

I guess what they would need to do is start having kids and then equal it with deaths, if not enough die in each given day, just shoot people in the head (stupid people). That way each day you would stay equal. Popping out kids is very easy, shooting people in the head is easy too.

Germany builds very nice super yachts, ask Paul Allen.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', 'I') guess what they would need to do is start having kids and then equal it with deaths, if not enough die in each given day, just shoot people in the head (stupid people). That way each day you would stay equal. Popping out kids is very easy, shooting people in the head is easy too.

Germany builds very nice super yachts, ask Paul Allen.

[Madpaddy]

Frankthetank wrote,

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') guess what they would need to do is start having kids and then equal it with deaths, if not enough die in each given day, just shoot people in the head

[smiley]

I'm amazed to hear people complaining about a low birthrate at this site.

After all Peakoil is a site about population overshoot more than anything else. Population reduction is a blessing.

Besides the whole fear for the effect of population reduction on the workforce is a joke.

If you look at the numbers, you notice that the workforce has been increasing much more rapid than the population in the past decades. The reason for that is the increase of working women. It would take more than a small population decline to counter that effect.

[Madpaddy]

Goodbye.

I may be some time.

It's being great knowing some of you guys but in my case now reality calls.


I'll be back.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smiley', 't')he workforce has been increasing much more rapid than the population in the past decades. The reason for that is the increase of working women. It would take more than a small population decline to counter that effect.

[smiley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') 10% drop in population in Germany is not a small population decline

[I_Like_Plants]

It's the third-worlders who need to be trimmed down, not the Aryans. Sheesh.

[Ebyss]

On a sidenote - land in some parts of Germany (i.e. farmland) is going ridiculously cheap at the moment. Coupla guys I know clubbed together and bought a 40 acre Army Base that was abandoned (I think it was an Airfield or some such) for around E40,000. Another person I know was offered a farm for E10,000.

Could be some ideal homesteading opportunities out there.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ebyss', 'O')n a sidenote - land in some parts of Germany (i.e. farmland) is going ridiculously cheap at the moment. Coupla guys I know clubbed together and bought a 40 acre Army Base that was abandoned (I think it was an Airfield or some such) for around E40,000. Another person I know was offered a farm for E10,000.

Could be some ideal homesteading opportunities out there.