Dick and Rick Hoyt are a father-and-son team from Massachusetts who compete together in marathon races. Rick the son whose physical impairment came from an accident that deprived his brain of oxygen at birth, says that he doesn't feel handicapped when they are competing together.
Japan has done the world a favour by paddling into the turbulent waters of demographic winter before the rest of us. After the second World War, Japan did not have the 'baby boom' the West experienced.
Last week we looked at eight social trends that are behind the world's coming 'demographic winter'- the crisis of depopulation that will result in vastly more golden-agers than young people, and will plunge the world into a depression worse than the 'Dirty Thirties'. But there are already social consequences from those trends.
What are the causes of the coming 'demographic winter'? One is simply gross inattention. There's no better example than the UN Fund for Population, UNFPA.
You may or may not believe in 'global warming'; I do not: I think it's a power grab by international socialists. But I'll concede that there are arguments being made on both sides of that debate.