2 November

The same demographic trend but now looked at via the birth rates. You can see from the 1970s, fertility rates went into free fall. The 1970s was the decisive shift away from adult-centred life, the countercultural revolution of the 1960s which substituted adolescent high school life for adult life really started to hits its straps from the 1970s onwards. This is a terminal trend for all of these societies. It won't destroy them overnight, but again if you’re not replacing yourself with more babies, by definition your society is over. Try finding anybody even today to staff aged care, our largest growth industry.