Tag: population decline
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“The Coming Population Crash”: The overpopulation myth
Salon: "The Coming Population Crash": The overpopulation myth How feminism and pop culture saved Earth from getting too crowded — and are helping to avert planetary catastrophe. People have been worrying about the world’s pending overpopulation for more than two centuries. Robert Thomas Malthus sounded the alarm in 1797 with "An Essay on the Principles…
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Go forth and multiply a lot less
The Economist: Go forth and multiply a lot less Lower fertility is changing the world for the better. SOMETIME in the next few years (if it hasn’t happened already) the world will reach a milestone: half of humanity will be having only enough children to replace itself. That is, the fertility rate of half the…
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1.85
Gruntled Center (Beau Weston): 1.85 Ben Wattenberg's Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future, begins with a momentous observation. In 2002 the U.N. predicted that the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of the world would soon drop to 1.85 children per woman. The replacement rate – the average number of children that…