Tag: population growth
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Global Socio-Demographic Trends Over the Next Twenty Years
EUISS: Global Trends 2030 According to the United Nations (UN), by 2030 the world population will reach 8.3 billion. Millions of these individuals are being empowered by the social and technological progress of the last decades. The main drivers of this trend are, first and foremost, the global emergence of the middle class, particularly in…
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Two thousand years in one chart
Economist: Two thousand years in one chart An alternative timeline for the past two millennia SOME people recite history from above, recording the grand deeds of great men. Others tell history from below, arguing that one person's life is just as much a part of mankind's story as another's. If people do make history, as…
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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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Census estimates point to end of Sun Belt’s population growth
USA Today: Census estimates point to end of Sun Belt's population growth The housing collapse and economic crisis are dramatically transforming the population and political landscape of the nation by ending the Sun Belt boom that dominated growth for a generation, according to Census Bureau estimates released Monday. For the first time since the early…
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America at 300 Million
From the Los Angles Times: America at 300 Million WITHIN A WEEK or so, the Census Bureau will declare that the population of the United States has reached the 300 million mark. As I write this sentence, the bureau's Population Clock, found at http://www.census.gov , reads 299,901,023. It took thousands of years for the population…