Economist: civilization may not survive "death spiral"

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justinian said:

@iFlow: 

You are right. History shows that all big powers fall due to war and where mankind is concern war can never be discredited as the reason for future powers to fall as well.

About the baby boomers thing, with the high immigration going on in he US I don't see how this point is valid. If people have less babies there are still hundreds of thousands pouring in each year to negate this.

If you look into it, Most superpowers rise just as others fall. For example, after world war one, the ottoman, the german, the italian and the dutch empires all collapsed, Just as the soviet union was started to rise. The depression allowed to grow even more than the west too.

And by the 1945 (end of world war two), this was when America really started to rise, by which time the Soviet Union was really powerful. Also, the war started to destroy the 2 biggest empires , the British and French ones. So you are right, the european dominance of the world went to America and Russia.

Whenever America starts to use power and wealth, another country will take it's place. China is ALREADY getting there, as they are starting to loan out money to europe and the US, which makes them more powerful