Tag: population decline
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Calmly Considered: Global Population– Will It Become Standing Room Only?
On this episode of Calmly Considered, Michael and Allan discuss the growing global population, its implications for the future and why it's important for the followers of Jesus.
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Global Population Estimates by Age, 1950-2050
Pew Research: Global Population Estimates by Age, 1950-2050 These are screen captures. The graphs at the site are interactive.
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Demography Links
1. New York Times: Why Are Americans Staying Put? … “This decline in migration has been going on for a long time now, through all sorts of ups and downs in the housing market,” said Greg Kaplan of Princeton University, who, along with Sam Schulhofer-Wohl of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, has studied the…
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Demography Links
1. A look at global population trends in the Christian Science Monitor. "Too many people is a big problem, but too few is a concern as well." "The story of the 21st century has been one of falling birthrates, rising standards of living, and a revolution in food production. But the global picture is uneven:…
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Saturday Links
Pickings have been slim this week, and I'm late getting the links posted. Hopefully, we will get back on track this week. 1. Hidden environmentalists: India's waste pickers In Pune, India, a city that suffered a waste disposal crisis in 2010, an alliance of waste pickers has established an inclusive, sustainable model for solid waste…
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World Total Fertility Rate, 1960-2010
This chart explains why many demographers worry about a population bust, not a population bomb. The replacement rate fertility is 2.1. Economic development has led to declining fertility rates in country after country, but the rates drop right past 2.1 into population decline. Some countries in Europe have rates in the 1.0-1.5 range. Assuming there…
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Saturday Links
1. Research Digest reports that Students motivated by wealth are just as likely as others to help in an emergency "… Seventy-eight per cent of the business students offered some kind of help to the stranger. Sixty-six per cent went so far as refusing to leave the stranger or giving him/her their mobile phone. The…
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Saturday Links
1. Lots of news outlets picked up on this story about technology displacing humans. In The Future, Machines May Have All The Jobs. We all know where this leads. Seriously, technological innovation always creates dislocations. Fear of machines replacing humans goes back to the beginning of the industrial revolution. The economy has always adapted, and…
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About That Overpopulation Problem
Five years ago, I wrote a piece called, Technophysio Evolution and Demographic Transition, explaining the dynamics and trends of global population growth and decline. Slate has an excellent article explaining the Demographic Transition Model. Slate: About That Overpopulation Problem Research suggests we may actually face a declining world population in the coming years. The world’s…
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World faces ageing population time bomb says UN
Telegraph: World faces ageing population time bomb says UN The world needs to take urgent action to cope with the impact of a rapidly ageing population, according to a new report, which forecast that the number of people older than 60 would surpass one billion within a decade. A major study published by the United…