:byzsoc:I think the point was that as more people live longer into retirement age, socialist countries will struggle to meet pension and medical commitments, provide safe living conditions as people become more dependent on care givers, and a smaller percentage of the population working means lower tax revenue. Sounds like those population control single child family programs are really paying off.Oh no, that can’t be. Humanity taking it’s natural, God-given course: ageing.
If we can’t age, what else can we do? We can’t stay young and beautiful.
Ageing is a beautiful thing, and it is a true gift. Being young is a gift, as is being older. There’s nothing we can do, it’s God’s will.
God Bless
It might be worth remembering that 100 years ago, in the US the average life expectancy was 53 years. Compare that to an average life expectancy of 78 today.
Really? 53? I’m not American, but our life expectancy was actually only in the fourties, because it depended on the amount of hard work and labour one did during his life.
Now because there are no kids to support the elderly they are running around crying “Chicken Little”
The late Carlos P. Romulo had been facepalming at the idiocy of the U.N. ever since the '80s.
Yes that’s exactly my sentiments. I’ll be happy to pitch a rose on the UN’s grave
It’s sad, I’ve always thought the UN was worthless because of the failure of the League of Nations. Once again the UN proves private charity (Roman Catholic Church) is vastly superior to government welfare (Clinton and UN’s Oil-for-Food program).
Remember the likes of Carlos P. Romulo, for they had made the U.N. honorable. It is sad that a lot of people within it had disregarded or deliberately misrepresented them.
The two are related, of course, but medical advances have increased the average lifespan significantly in recent years. One billion people over 60 would be a heavy load even if there were lots of young people around.
Umm what does hunger have to do with the population getting older?
Abortion is part of the picture, yes, but even if there were NO abortion, it would be a challenge to tend a growing multitude of men and women living into their 80s, 90s, and beyond.
No it would not. There would be many many more young than old now, so there would be ample young people and ample money (larger tax base) to handle it. (The concern is the old becoming a significant and thus overbearing proportion of the total population base - but a large reason this is happening is because we are killing off our young in statistically significant numbers. I guess and wouldn’t be surprised if the abortionists push for euthanasia of the old to balance out the killing of the young. What a solution! They kill too many young so the old become a problem, so fix it, just kill the old too! The culture of death.Kill, kill, kill.)