Empty Planet : The Shock of Global Population Decline
-- The Big Shift For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning planetary population will soon overwhelm the earth's resources. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different kind of alarm. Rather than growing exponentially, they argue, the global population is headed for a steep decline. Throughout history, depopulation was the product of catastrophe: ice ages, plagues, the collapse of civilizations. This time, however, we're thinning ourselves deliberately, by choosing to have fewer babies than we need to replace ourselves. In much of the developed and developing world, that decline is already underway, as urbanization, women's empowerment, and waning religiosity lead to smaller and smaller families. In -- Empty Planet offers a vision of a future that we can no longer prevent--but one that we can shape, if we choose.
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324 pages - Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : McClelland & Stewart, 2019.
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