The aging of society will help to tear it down

Yes, I am way behind. China has been trying to buy a US oil firm and of course the people who get to make decisions are saying no. Can't have China getting too much power. But they are buying up big firms left and right, and their consumption continues on its upward trajectory.

Check out this article:
"If the Heat Doesn't Kill the Elderly...", in particular this quote: "Fifty years ago, a heat wave of this magnitude and duration would have claimed the lives of hundreds, perhaps thousands of shriveled-up old codgers. The streets would have been littered with their withered carcasses. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case. By providing today's elderly with unprecedented access to air conditioning and situating them in safe, supervised retirement communities, we have thrown Mother Nature's natural-selection process completely out of sync. And don't look for winter to solve the problem, either: Even more old people have heating than have air-conditioning, and more and more are getting it every day."

And when you think about this whole social security fiasco that has been going on in the US this year, don't you just kind of choke? How are people supposed to survive with wages continuing to decrease compared to the cost of living and no social security? I was just wondering.