Tag: demographic transition
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Our ancestors did not live in balance with nature. They died in balance with it.
One of the most important observations (among many) from the late Hans Roslings' Factfulness: When a population is not growing over a long period of time, and the population curve is flat, this must mean that each generation of new parents is the same size as the previous one. For thousands of years up to…
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Don’t Fence Them In
Newsweek: Don't Fence Them In The Arizona of the future won’t suffer from too many immigrants—but from too few. … Yet all this angst may be an over-reaction. A little-known, but enormously significant, demographic development has been unfolding south of our border. The fertility rate in Mexico—whose emigrants account for a majority of the United…
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Living Simply in Abundance (14)
“Material abundance is (A) rapidly depleting our resources and (B) destroying our environment.” This has become the refrain of a new generation of neo-Malthusian environmentalists in our day. It’s widespread in Mainline (National Council of Churches denominations) and is the dominant viewpoint among influential emerging church notables (Brian McLaren’s “Everything Must Change” is a prime…
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Theology and Economics: Demographic Transition and the Environment
The Demographic Transition Model is a model used by demographers to describe the transition from high birth rates and high death rates to low birth rates and low death rates that occurred during industrialization in Western nations. It happened in four stages. (See “Demographic Transition” chart for reference.) Stage 1: Prior to the mid-eighteenth-century death…