Demographic Dangers & Declining Birth Rates, Part Five: Problems, Solutions & the Economics of Immigration.

All across the West supply chains are breaking down, in large part for a lack of truck drivers, & yet there is a ready solution at hand. Why not turn the issue of immigration from one defined by negativity into a vote winning strategy, & in the process reverse declining demographic trends, renovate supply chains & improve the economy, & that’s just for starters?

The Most Rev, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, speaking out against the UK’s proposed Illegal Migration Bill in the House of Lords recently. Image from The Times (PRU/AFP/Getty images).

“Demographics offers a clue to the geopolitical world of the future — and how Washington should prepare for it. To maintain the United States’ edge, American leaders must take steps to slow or reverse the negative demographic trends now eating away at the foundations of U.S. power.”

Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 2019.

Homo sapiens…a species on the move!

Demographic change, including population growth, has three main driving forces: fertility, mortality and migration, of which migration is by far the least predictable.