There are not many books that would highlight Rockford,Illinois but in Ted Fishman's book called " Shock Of Gray" he looks at this aging due industrialized city in Northern Illinois and its growing minority population as the old population just gets older. This book is about the worlds ageing population and how it pits generations and families against one another.
I guess if it plays in Rockford it could play anywhere or maybe he was too lazy to study Peoria. The political and economical ramifications of this aging of the people around the world is a historical and significant troublesome problem for the world as societies will continue to have more and more old people compared to the rest of the population. Chapters look at Japan's fall and why China will get old before they ever become a superpower and how costs of taking care of these people will cripple governments and families. Fishmen looks at other demographic problems as the number of Japanese women who in their forties have never been married and childless leaving Japan's government no way to maintain infrastructure and elderly care.
I always maintained the number of old people wants to make the young cling on to avoiding adult responsibilities because well who wants to become old and crinkled. It is the old and crinkled folks that can't understand why in a world they messed up that people don't want to get married in industrial countries and have the children they seem to be needed to maintain a globalized economic world where countless growth is necessary for power in a world with disappearing energy resources. This author only hits on this topic a little and having a population on this planet getting older is not necessary a bad thing. A bad thing wold be adding even ore people to this planet they way these old bastards and others before them exploited the earth and put it in this pernicious state we see it today. I'm still shocked this author devoted a whole chapter to Rockford.
I guess if it plays in Rockford it could play anywhere or maybe he was too lazy to study Peoria. The political and economical ramifications of this aging of the people around the world is a historical and significant troublesome problem for the world as societies will continue to have more and more old people compared to the rest of the population. Chapters look at Japan's fall and why China will get old before they ever become a superpower and how costs of taking care of these people will cripple governments and families. Fishmen looks at other demographic problems as the number of Japanese women who in their forties have never been married and childless leaving Japan's government no way to maintain infrastructure and elderly care. I always maintained the number of old people wants to make the young cling on to avoiding adult responsibilities because well who wants to become old and crinkled. It is the old and crinkled folks that can't understand why in a world they messed up that people don't want to get married in industrial countries and have the children they seem to be needed to maintain a globalized economic world where countless growth is necessary for power in a world with disappearing energy resources. This author only hits on this topic a little and having a population on this planet getting older is not necessary a bad thing. A bad thing wold be adding even ore people to this planet they way these old bastards and others before them exploited the earth and put it in this pernicious state we see it today. I'm still shocked this author devoted a whole chapter to Rockford.
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