Paul Allen is one of my favorite blog reads, and today, he’s got me thinking. Why?

We also face a new selfishness, a new hedonism in the developed world. One manifestation of this is the lowest fertility rate in the history of the world. Europes population is disappearing because the desire to reproduce and pass on values and opportunities to children seems to be disappearing.

China has similar problems headed its way because the male population outnumbers the female population pretty significantly. China’s missing girls – MSNBC.

‘Missing girls’
From a relatively normal ratio of 108.5 boys to 100 girls in the early 80s, the male surplus progressively rose to 111 in 1990, 116 in 2000, and is now is close to 120 boys for each 100 girls at the present time, according to a Chinese think-tank report.

If you multiply that by just 10, you get 1200 boys for every 1000 girls. But in China, it gets much worse when you take into account that there are 1 billion people there. For every 1 million girls, you have 1.2 million boys. That’s 200,000 extra boys per million people. If you thought it was hard to meet a nice girl before, what’s to come in China?