Legacy Matters

Rural Europe dying

People die and so do cultures when there is no one alive left to pass on traditions.

It looks like rural Europe is dying.  In 25 years, Europe will lose 41 million people even with continued immigration according to the UN.  The countryside will lose a third of its population. 

"It's a triple time bomb," says University of Lisbon demographer Nuno da Costa. "Too few children, too many old people and too many of the remaining young people still leaving the village."

From Into the Woods.  Economics and declining birthrates are pushing large swaths of Europe back to their primeval state, with wolves taking the place of people.