So internal country issues can be one thing - China, for instance - while the overall situation is significantly different, if not possibly the exact opposite. In which case, what if there's a situation like Sev describes (above) where the deathrate's shot up, the genetic factors are damaged, and the birthrate must be boosted...if a select set of countries in the world have better opportunities, and immigrants flood into that country seeking its resources/education/money (as they do now, with the US, in some ways) - this would raise the *population* of that sole country but not the *birthrate*. So there could potentially be one country struggling with internal resource/population balance while the world as a whole is trying to up the birthrate and has the resources to do it?
Japan is a creditor nation so it can live on coupons for quite a long time but it's economy will not be a productive, dynamic one. Add a natural disaster to that and who knows what could happen?
Uh, not me? Are you gonna tell me? Or is this a trick question? *poke*
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Date: 23 Nov 2004 12:27 am (UTC)Japan is a creditor nation so it can live on coupons for quite a long time but it's economy will not be a productive, dynamic one. Add a natural disaster to that and who knows what could happen?
Uh, not me? Are you gonna tell me? Or is this a trick question? *poke*