One of the latest growth areas in the academy is in "security demographics", where scholars are invited to predict the potentially dire implications of demographic change, and one of the most gloomy prognostications is rooted in what could happen when sex ratios spin out of kilter.
In The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War, by Robert D. Kaplan (Vintage, $12), a journalist warns against cognitive hubris as he casts a skeptical eye on global prospects for the future, pointing to dire environmental and demographic trends while finding hope in the accumulated wisdom of the ages.
Inside the château's cavernous second-story study, at a desk heavy with books, the seventy-one-year-old owner of the property, Renaud Camus, sits at an iMac and tweets dire warnings about Europe's demographic doom.
Disparities and Dangers While many nations have aging populations, Japan's demographic crisis is truly dire, with forecasts showing that 40 percent of the population will be 65 and over by 2055.
Maybe.The programme owes its dire state, in part, to the same demographic forces undermining Social Security and Medicare.
When coupled with demographic trends this could portend a dire economic outlook for our country.
With Mr. Romney's dire need to improve his numbers among this demographic, conditions might never be better to raise awareness for this issue.
Geisler began collating climate and demographic research, and came to a dire conclusion: By the year 2100, rising sea levels could force up to 2 billion people inland, creating a refugee crisis among one-fifth of the world's population.
However, the Intermedia data paints a somewhat dire picture for Microsoft among smaller firms, a corporate demographic that it cannot afford to ignore.
The consequences of this vast demographic shift, according to the authors, could be dire.
It is now expected to rise to nearly 9 billion by 2050.But from the early 1990s the World Bank and others began to issue dire warnings about an entirely new scare, soon christened the "demographic time bomb".
