Looking for trouble
Via Powerline:
in India there are 112 boys born for every 100 girls. In China, the number is 121 — though plenty of Chinese towns are over the 150 mark. China’s and India’s populations are mammoth enough that their outlying sex ratios have skewed the global average to a biologically impossible 107. But the imbalance is not only in Asia. Azerbaijan stands at 115, Georgia at 118 and Armenia at 120.
Historically, a surplus of sons has often meant war in the world. Given that the countries with the largest populations are producing such imbalances, what mischief should we expect to see?
June 21st, 2011 at 1:47 pm
China needs some mischief but I think we should be worrying about the mischief created here by years of high unemployment even without the male/female imbalance of those primarily agrarian societies.