Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline - Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson
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Demographics
Global Economy
Global Population
Politcal Science
Population Decline
Social Science
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An award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher make the provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape.
For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning population will soon overwhelm the earth’s resources. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different alarm. Rather than continuing to increase exponentially, they argue, the global population is headed for a steep decline - and in many countries, that decline has already begun.
In Empty Planet, John Ibbitson and Darrell Bricker find that a smaller global population will bring with it many benefits: fewer workers will command higher wages; the environment will improve; the risk of famine will wane; and falling birthrates in the developing world will bring greater affluence and autonomy for women.
But enormous disruption lies ahead, too. We can already see the effects in Europe and parts of Asia, as aging populations and worker shortages weaken the economy and impose crippling demands on healthcare and social security. The United States and Canada are well-positioned to successfully navigate these coming demographic shifts - that is, unless growing isolationism leads us to close ourselves off just as openness becomes more critical to our survival than ever.
Rigorously researched and deeply compelling, Empty Planet offers a vision of a future that we can no longer prevent - but one that we can shape, if we choose.
Praise for Empty Planet
“An ambitious reimagining of our demographic future.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“The authors combine a mastery of social-science research with enough journalistic flair to convince fair-minded readers of a simple fact: Fertility is falling faster than most experts can readily explain, driven by persistent forces.” (The Wall Street Journal)
“The beauty of this book is that it links hard-to-grasp global trends to the easy to-understand individual choices being made all over the world today . . . a gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change.” (The New Statesman)
8 hours and 40 minutes
©2019 Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson (P)2019 Random House Audio
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This post has 14 comments with rating of 3.7/5
November 25th, 2023
Ahh, yes. If we don’t continue growing the already unsustainable population we might not have enough poor people to exploit and make us richer. Great premise.
November 25th, 2023
It’s like the post-Black Death landscape! A Hundred Years’ War! Reduced consumption would be a welcome relief. A lot of the politics will be around elderly care.
There will be population decline in historic centres of large population: China, India, Europe & the US.
But claiming it for the developing world is likely inaccurate (or the possible decline is somewhat distant). Population is projected to massively increase across the Islamic world & in Africa.
(Pew Research: The world’s Muslim population has been calculated to increase by about 35% from 2010 to ca. 2030; rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030. (Currently estim at around 1.8 billion.) More than 24.1% of the world’s population is Muslim. Current estimates conclude that the number of Muslims in the world is around 1.8 billion.) Number of Muslims in the Middle East-North Africa region is expected to increase from about 300 m in 2010 to more than 550 m in 2050. The Muslim population in sub-Saharan Africa is forecast to more than double, growing from about 250 m in 2010 to nearly 670 m in 2050.)
November 25th, 2023
I duplicated a bit of info there, soz.
Important factor that population increase is exponential rather than arithmetic. The pragmatic check is resource availability (which is always a wee bit “Malthus”).
November 25th, 2023
I doubt there’s going to be a population decline when all the countries with the lowest IQ are breeding like rabbits.
What’s really happening is a racial and cultural replacement. All the white people in the world, that is the ones who made the modern world, are having fewer children.
All the stupid people in the world are having loads of kids and then expecting the state or the Western world to look after them.
We will have a future planet full of Africans, Indians and Chinese. That’s the sad truth of it.
November 25th, 2023
@iraqois: And yes, that’s the point. Once the rest of us finally get rid of you angry, belligerent, tough guy whites with your high IQs (LOL), everything will be great again. Keep ranting, because it’s hilarious and such an obvious “I’m a virgin” cry for help, LOL!
Hmm, have you ever thought about WHY white people are having fewer children?? Because you know it’s over for your race! But more importantly, you’re just not sexy people and YOU KNOW IT. You’ve finally realized that shooting guns and acting tough doesn’t produce children, and you have to do something icky and yucky and “ewww, disgusting” to produce children. LOL! It shouldn’t be a surprise that the world’s unsexiest people can’t reproduce!! LOL
White genocide and white replacement now, white genocide and white replacement FOREVER!!!
November 26th, 2023
koloko seems to have gone insane, he doesnt understand the ratio of destruction that white people can bring to bear if they decide. Population #’s matter little when your exposed to thermobaric munitions getting your lungs crushed. What if its 5000:1 what if its 50,000:1. Your warfare is akin to local pizza shop, they use industrialized warfare with the combination of walmart and amazon. Look what the Dutch Boars did in Africa in the 1600’s imagine that on a worldwide scale. Also, they now have chemical and biological vectors where the cost to kill is less than $0.20 cents per person.
November 26th, 2023
koloko also has a case of insane loxism, the entire world including Africa East Asia India uses skin lightening cream because ?? Why do asians / South Americans and others use plastic surgery to look closer to white beauty standards especially nose jobs and aqueline noses.
November 26th, 2023
iraqois if all the foreign workers went home, the US would collapse in 24hrs.
How come the US needs to fast track visa for brown doctors, IT super stars, engineers and people to pick your fruit and Veg and slaughter your meat?
Because whites are incapable of producing enough doctors & IT wizards and even low educated whites are too fat & weak to do manual labour or pass the entrance requirements for the US military which are already comically low.
iraqois what great contributtion have you made to the modern world?
Any whites, alive or dead, with great accomplishments get the credit, not you. You think because you share the same skin colour as Albert Einstein that some of his brilliance belongs to you? Wrong DumbO. If those greats could meet you they would punch you in the face to get you off their coattails and get a court order to get you to stop stalking them.
In my experience all the whites who constantly bring up the accomplishments of other people with white skin are angry unaccomplished losers. Y’all are accomplishment communists. You believe the credit for their accomplishments should be equally divided among all white people- commie.
November 26th, 2023
I’m European, not American, and I’m sick of my continent bring overrun by people from the third world.
As for whites being ugly, that’s a bit rich. White women are the prettiest in the world - that’s why everyone wants to date them.
The world was created by Englishmen and English speakers. India, sub Saharan Africa and the rest of the world have contributed nothing.
Even the debate we’re having here is due to the accomplishments of white people and Europeans.
If it weren’t for us, you guys would still be eating each other and living in mud huts. Some of you still do. And when you come to Europe you drag down white societies. Who commits the most crimes? Oh yeah.
November 27th, 2023
We have too many people.
November 28th, 2023
koloko: you go girl!
Iraqois: age of England has passed long ago. Do you even realize that? World was happy without england and english people, and you have caused so much suffering as a people. Now, chickens are coming home to roost I guess..
November 28th, 2023
That’s where you’re mistaken. There will be a war and Europe will be free, then you can return to your third world hellholes and continue living in destitution.
November 29th, 2023
iraqois
Ahhh what would hell be like without a republican?
December 3rd, 2023
If it wasn’t for White Europeans you guys would be posting your drivel beating on hollow logs.
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