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Kindergarten Hope

Source: Israeli television Channel 2 comedy show "Eretz Nehederet" ("Wonderful Country"), Season 8, Episode 1, skit "Kindergarten Hope".

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Twilight of the West

Demographer Peter McDonald calculates that with current fertility levels, Italy will lose 86% of its population by the end of the century, falling to 8 million compared with today's 56 million. Spain will lose 85%, Germany 83%, and Greece 74%.

Population historian David Reher told ­in 2006 that, "As population and tax revenues decline in Europe, urban areas could well be filled with empty buildings surrounded by areas which look more like some science-fiction movies."

The future is already here: Hoyerswerda, a town near Dresden close to the Polish ­border, has lost half its population in the last 20 years. It is an ­ageing ghost town. "Hoy Woy" seems a town without a purpose, in a corner of Europe without a future.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/01/population-crash-fred-pearce

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