From China to Russia to Europe: the worst demographic dystopias come true

Forecasts of births for future years record daunting figures worldwide compared to those of deaths. Only the United States is saved. But, even in this case, immigration is the decisive factor for being able to stand

“The current was fast, but not too strong even for an inexperienced swimmer. You can get an idea of ​​the strangeness of those people, when I tell you that none of them bothered in the least to rescue the screaming and drowning little creature in front of the their eyes”. It is fiction. From the late 19th century. From the father of scientific imagination: George Herbert Wells, the same man who would later have imagined the Martian invaders exterminated by a lethal virus, that of the common cold. Viruses, bacteria, epidemics are one of the breads writer’s newspapers. His first story, The stolen bacillus, dealt with bacteriological terrorism. The passage quoted at the beginning is from The time Machinefrom 1895.