Anon sent this

About Population Decline:

"Oh boy... something I know a little bit about. Below are some internet resources. Harvard has a good site on broad overview of world aging and demographic transitons in different countries and cultures. UC Berkeley demography has what I think is some of very best research on long term financial and economic issues that the military and geopolitical strategic sorts who inhabit this blog might find interesting.

But in some ways this is old news. The poor (and usually implicitly assumed to be inferior) masses have been growing more rapidly the the delicate high quality rich SOB's for centuries. But we are still here and making every more rapid progress even though the master races and classes have been going extinct for centuries. The problem was mentioned as far back as ancient Egypt I think... when the old-style dudes were being outbreeded by crazy Libyans, threatened by the Hyksos and conguered once or twice by the Nubians -who thought they were the keepers of the old aristocratic and noble Egyptian virtues, complicating the traditional upper classes' narrative a bit.)

introductory article

http://longevity-science.org/Population_Aging.htm

(via wikipedia article on aging:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_population

)

world demography of aging

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/pgda/

If you want to understand the economics of retirement and medical care for for aging and social security, UC Berkeley Department of Demography about the best place to go, especially Prof. Ronald Lee. (bottom line, no long term social security or economic bust due to aging in the US... Medicare is another story, though) UC Berkeley department of Demography

http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/faculty/demog_faculty.html

Demographic transition sites

http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/geography/Demotrans/demtran.htm

http://geography.about.com/od/culturalgeography/a/demotransition.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition

Anon"