Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. & full of fascinating trivia (like John Snow, the father of epidemiology). Read reviews and buy Empty Planet - by Darrell Bricker & John Ibbitson (Paperback) at Target. PS- Part 1 (a brief history of population) is the quickest ever recap of key events in the past 50,000 yrs. Hence the US has a massive advantage & the 21st century may be another American century. are xenophobic nations where immigration is almost unknown. Solution? You can’t “encourage” people to procreate on a long-term basis. Fewer youngsters mean fewer taxpayers (who’ll fund pensions?), fewer home buyers (falling home prices) & fewer consumers (collapse in GDP growth).

The global pop may peak at 8.5 bln (& not 11 bln as per the UN).īut less humans is NOT good news. The stunning discovery? Birth rates are falling fast irrespective of region thx to rapid urbanization (children are more productive on a farm!), declining religiosity, rising cost of childcare & living & Women’s education & empowerment. Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline. The authors dive deep into the current & future trends of some population hotspots- India, China, Russia, Japan, Brazil & sub-Saharan Africa. Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson - Hardback. I half expected this to be an essay by fear mongers, but I was blown away by how rigorously researched & compelling this book was.

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