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Italy Is Dying a Slow Death: Demographic Decline
Italy is one of the homes of Western civilisation, and it is where Western civilisation started and emerged as the first dominant state of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor in the form of the Roman Empire.
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(Though be careful saying that the Greeks see themselves as the home and birthplace of Western civilisation with thinkers such as Aristotle, Plato and Athenian democracy.)
The legacy of Rome continues to exist long after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 A.D. in the form of the Roman Catholic Church based in Italy in Vatican City within the capital city of Italy, Rome.
In more contemporary times, Italy is famous for its Italian Renaissance, pastries, and wine, as well as the fascist dictators of the 1920s, 1930s, and early 1940s, who were in the form of Mussolini.
Over the past 75 years, Italy has slowly been dying due to a demographic decline due to people not having children in Italy.
Cities like Genoa only have a third of their street lights on due to the city slowing dying due to demographic decline, which could soon become the new normal for Europe.
Genoa, a city that once thrived with a population of 950,000 in 1972, now struggles with…
