December 29, 2005

WHAT'S THE HURRY:

Teaching jobs in doubt as pensioners set to outnumber pupils by 2009 (PETER MACMAHON, 12/29/05, The Scotsman)

SCOTLAND'S demographic time-bomb will explode in three years, when the number of pensioners north of the Border overtakes the number of children in school, the Executive has been warned.

While the secularists continue to shovel up their assurances that peoples don't just kill themselves off....

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 29, 2005 8:07 AM
Comments

I suppose there might be secularists elsewhere that have asserted that, but I have never read any one here making such a claim. Certainly there's no Darwinian reason to believe that specific cultures can't be maladaptive and therefore disappear.

Posted by: Annoying Old Guy at December 31, 2005 11:25 AM
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