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That's alittle bit of an exaggeration, but not much of one for your typical Japanese salaryman. Sometimes they get Sunday off, but if they get it "off" they usually have other obligations on that day. (source)

No, the third world is overpopulated.

"First" "second' and "third" world is mostly an indication of economic prosperity, not that what happens over there has no relation to us here. We all live in one world, doubly so in the age of globalization.

How about telling that to the people in the third world popping out kids faster than they can feed them?

A quick search told me that

Millions of women around the world do want contraceptives but can't get them

We are trying to get them to have less kids. We're sending them contraceptives as part of our aid (and certain church folk hate it)

Other religious folks are working with the rest of society in family planning (and this article was back in 1994, so the idea isn't new)

People in rich countries who think that an ever shrinking skilling workforce from low birth rates will somehow be able to support the ageing population are completely misguided when they think not having kids will have any affect on the overall picture of population and that there are no negative economic effects for remaining childless .Who is going to pay the taxes to support your services such as doctors and hospitals?

No, you are the misguided one. It appears the concept of immigration is lost on you. Or the idea of uplifting 3rd world nations so their increasing populations and labor pool can be used to support us in the future.

Besides, there is also such a thing as machines and automation. I would love to have a harem of my own sexy robot maids to tend to my every need in old age. In fact, I'd like to have them now if we had the technology.

why don't they instead find a way to get rid of the fscking mosquitoes ?

You think that idea hasn't occurred to anyone? They haven't done it because it is REALLY hard, and really expensive and given the political instability in parts of Africa as well as the geography not really feasible. We did it in the US in part through the use of DDT which turned out to be a pretty bad idea in the long run.

I looked up the Würm glaciation on Google and found this map. Being west of Tokyo there wasn't a lot of glaciation there.

Of course you kid. Nowadays not even the commies are commies.

China operates like the Orwellian nightmare of a business, uprooting people and destroying history and nature in its relentless march forward, hoping to get where its going before something irrevocably breaks.

If you're referring to China relocating entire villages for the 3 Gorges Dam project

The Three Gorges Dam is only one big example. But apparently, its quite common in China.

Apparently, when the government wishes to use land for some purpose and there's a village (or suburb) in the way, then the government will build a few high density residential buildings and have the entire village move in. In doing so, the entire village is uprooted, its history destroyed, and the place where the village was (the nature) is destroyed.

References:
http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=151&catid=11&subcatid=72
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/LE20Ad02.html

"Sex-specific abortions remained extremely commonplace, especially in rural areas," where the cultural preference for boys over girls is strongest, the study said, while noting the reasons for the gender imbalance were "complex."

One particularly ugly consequence that the articles does not mention is this:

In some places men are marrying their first cousins and even their sisters through deals made with relatives because that is only way they can find a wife. The practice is so common that some communities are referred to as "incest villages."

LEAVE SOME CHILDREN BEHIND

sorry- is that too callous?

http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=338&catid=13&subcatid=82

" According to government statistics, 95 percent of all children start school but the drop out rate is high. Only 80 percent graduate from elementary school. In poor rural areas the enrollment is only about 60 percent, with only 70 percent completing the first four years of primary school. Fewer than 35 percent of China's youth enter high school, and of these the drop out rate is high."

individual circumstances aside, with limited resources, don't you think it far more likely that the really good students, somehow find a way to be among those who remain.

The evelopmentally disabled ones are the ones who fall by the wayside and do not continue their education to the point where these internationalized standard tests are taken?

drop the ten% worst performers results from the US kids "math and science tests" and you may find that they don't suck after all.. APPLES & APPLES COMPARISONS PLEASE!