Posted: Feb 16, 2019 8:42 am
Macdoc wrote:I'm not fond of being wrong ....really detest being abysmally wrong....
This is mind blowing
AUTHOR: MEGAN MOLTENIMEGAN MOLTENI
SCIENCE
02.04.1907:00 AM
THE WORLD MIGHT ACTUALLY RUN OUT OF PEOPLE
YOU KNOW THE story. Despite technologies, regulations, and policies to make humanity less of a strain on the earth, people just won’t stop reproducing. By 2050 there will be 9 billion carbon-burning, plastic-polluting, calorie-consuming people on the planet. By 2100, that number will balloon to 11 billion, pushing society into a Soylent Green scenario. Such dire population predictions aren’t the stuff of sci-fi; those numbers come from one of the most trusted world authorities, the United Nations.
But what if they’re wrong? Not like, off by a rounding error, but like totally, completely goofed?
That’s the conclusion Canadian journalist John Ibbitson and political scientist Darrell Bricker come to in their newest book, Empty Planet, due out February 5th.
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https://www.wired.com/story/the-world-m ... =synd_digg
But what if they’re wrong? Not like, off by a rounding error, but like totally, completely goofed?
yup ....they did ....one of the most eye opening books in a while .....I thought Japan was an outlier...it's not. Very much worth a read.‘Empty Planet’ Review: A Drop in Numbers
Governments stoke fears about overpopulation, but the reality is that fertility rates are falling faster than most experts can readily explain.
‘Empty Planet’ Review: A Drop in Numbers
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Is a dangerous population explosion imminent? For decades we’ve been told so by scientific elites, starting with the Club of Rome reports in the 1970s. But in their compelling book “Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline,” Canadian social scientist Darrell Bricker and journalist John Ibbitson lay out the opposite case: “The great defining event of the twenty-first century,” they say, “will occur in three decades, give or take, when the global population starts to decline. Once that decline begins, it will never end.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/empty-plan ... 1549497631
It's hard to know how to respond to that. Perhaps by saying that as far as I can see there's zero in it that isn't already well-known and understood. As for the review, it's always useful to start with a straw man and then keep going, until you get to a dubious conclusion.