Re: Fertility Rates: Is Western society self sustaining?
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Well, let me posit it this way. If a societies entire social framework relies on a massive infusement of people from external sources is it sustainable. What happens if you ever run out of people who want to come?
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Then we've got a problem [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. Just don't think it will be a practical problem for long to come, but if you use the term self sustaining as meaning no immigration (as I should have realized 1st time [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]), I guess our society is not self sustaining. Not at all, actually. 6-7 years ago several sectors of society really stopped functioning due to lack of labor (I got mail just twice or so a week, sometimes garbage was not taken etc.), now we are managing to avoid it by being liberal towards the new EU-countries. We would of course survive without it, but would have to lower our ambitions and thus not "sustain".
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