The issue of World Population Bomb is gradually losing ground to other issues such as imploding national populations and aging workforce.
Of course we always find those who sounds extremely pessimistic. Jim Russell (Burgh Diaspora blog), for example, points out to several declining places (low fertility and no migration attraction). According to him, Southern New England Is Dying, Puerto Rico Is Dying, China Is Dying, Germany Is Dying, America Is Dying, Sun Belt Counties Dying, Silicon Valley Is Dying, New York City Is Dying, London Is Dying, San Francisco Is Dying etc etc ok. We understood, we're all dying anyway
The McKinsey Global Institute has published a report on how aging populations will reduce global savings (15min audio summary). Other pessimist, Jonathan Last (author of 'What To Expect When No One's Expecting'), trumpets a coming demographic disaster:
"Forget the debt ceiling. Forget the fiscal cliff, the sequestration cliff and the entitlement cliff. Those are all just symptoms. What America really faces is a demographic cliff: The root cause of most of our problems is our declining fertility rate."
The fact is no one is actually optimistic about current demographic trends. Nancy Folbre (MIT) has a more moderate opinion, although still far from being optimistic.
