  urlLink Demography and the West - Half a billion Americans? Ominous story about the divergent population curves of Europe and the USA over the next four or five decades: America is growing considerably faster than Europe, and is likely to overtake the population of western Europe sometime around 2035, and while America will have an awful lot of children to look after, Europe will have an awful lot of old people to look after.
The consequences of all this are difficult to predict (although I don't expect, as one of those old people, that I'd get looked after very much) but they will be far-reaching... (Economist, via Junius) 
