Patrick J. Buchanan. The Death Of The West (№ 252987)

The last time such a significant reduction of the European population was observed during the Black Death - the plague in 1347-1352 years. < ... > the Question is, what is called an edge; and if Europe in the foreseeable future will not find the answer, Europeans will become extinct. How serious the situation is? Of the twenty Nations with the lowest birth rate of the eighteen - nation European. The average fertility rate in Europe has fallen to 1, 4, then how to maintain the current population level requires a minimum of 2, 1. <...> Soon NATO will have to defend the vast world of Retirees. If the present fertility rates hold, Europe's population by the end of the twenty-first century will be reduced to 207 million people - that is, until thirty percent from today.