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Much of the developed world has recently moved into a new era that historians likely won’t name, and the general public won’t notice for a decade or so: the Age of Decline. Japan, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Germany, Spain, South Korea, and China, along with thirty other developed countries, are projected to see their populations decline in 2023. Hong Kong, Finland, Taiwan, France, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Denmark, and the United States, among another thirty-three countries, will see their populations grow by less than one-half of one-percent.
After recovering from Saddam Hussein’s efforts to drain them, southern Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshes are disappearing as a regional drought enters its fourth year and dams cut off water flows. Marsh Arabs, resident for millennia, are leaving, and biodiversity is collapsing.