Tag: population
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Thoughts on the “The Limits to Panic”
Forty-one years after the publication of the infamous Limits to Growth, Bjorn Lomborg offers this excellent piece, The Limits to Panic: … But the report's fundamental legacy remains: we have inherited a tendency to obsess over misguided remedies for largely trivial problems, while often ignoring big problems and sensible remedies. In the early 1970's, the…
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Where the Children Are
This graph below comes from a Wall Street Journal article A California Drought: Not Enough Children. It talks about the impact of this dynamic: … In 1970, six years after the end of the baby boom, children made up more than one-third of California's population. By 2030, they will account for just one-fifth, according to…
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Population Size, Diversity, and Income Inequality
National Review: The Great Gatsby, Moby Dick, and Omitted Variable Bias Jim Manzi … But what about all the other potential reasons, beyond what their Gini Coefficient was in 1985, for varying levels of social mobility between countries as diverse as Japan, France, and New Zealand? The most obvious example is just the size of…
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“Population and Poverty” Michael Miller
Acton Commentary: Population and Poverty by Michael Miller. The real issue is: Why is the World Bank funding abortions in the first place? Supported by 185 member countries — the United States is its largest donor — the World Bank has supplied funds to developing countries for 60 years. According to a World Bank memo…