The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population >>
"The threat, we are told here this weekend, is existential, #biological, epoch-defining. Economies will fail, #civilizations will fall, and it will all happen because people aren’t having enough #babies.
“The entire global #financial system, the value of your money, and every #asset you might buy with money is defined by leverage, which means its value depends on growth...." >>
>> "...like-minded people, starting with their own #children, who will reject a whole host of changes wrought by liberal #democracy and who, perhaps one day, will amount to a #population large enough to effect more lasting change.
Here lies the project, spelled out in detail: The people who disagree have #bloodlines that are slowly going to die out. To speed up that process — to have this particular strain of #conservative...>
Can't say I subscribe to any great panic over this. Endless growth capitalism is destroying the planet. It'll be challenging coming up with another economic model, but we can do it.
"By the end of this century, the research predicts just six nations – half of which are in sub-Saharan Africa – will have a fertility level above the replacement rate."
Migration is not Australia’s biggest population problem - declining birth rates and rising death rates are
Canada setting a blistering population growth of 3.2% in 2023! The most since the 1950s! Back then the baby boom was still a thing. Today, there were only 40,000 more births than deaths, 97.6% of the growth came from immigration. Over 471,000 people settled here, 800,000 came as temporary workers and others came as international students, asylum seekers, etc. Our population is 40.7 Million. #CanPoli#Immigration#Population#CdnPoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/population-growth-canada-2023-1.7157233
As China faces a population decline and low birth rates, hospitals in the country are shutting down their newborn delivery services because of the decreased demand. The Chinese Communist Party pulled a major reversal of their long-running one-child policy in 2016, but they are having little success convincing citizens to have more children. Young people say high unemployment, economic instability and the lack of resources for caregivers make starting a family too difficult. Read more from Semafor.
If you see anyone parroting the talking points of a certain tech billionaire, maybe get them to watch this video
(which includes thoughtful commentary from the brilliant Jennifer Sciubba): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_mOHelAH44
PS
It might also be useful for anyone who's teaching on population topics.
Now you know: In 2021 Sweden's mortality rate was at least 3-times the USA's in infancy and from age 23 to 53. From 33 to 43 Americans died at more than 4-times the rate of Swedes. #demography#population#publichealth
Here's a graph of the growth in human population globally over the past 2024 years. I updated it this morning for a first-year lecture. On it I mark the years my grandparents and parents were born, when I was born, and when my teenage daughter was born.
I still find it hard to grasp just how quickly and massively the human population has exploded. There's 6 billion(!!!) more people on the planet today than when my grandparents were born.
"Uncertainty about the future and concerns about the ecological impact of the growing human #population were key factors also identified by research.
But concerns also differed in different parts of the world, Dillarstone said. “There was a concern that came out only in Zambia and Ethiopia, which was about a family’s ability to subsist and acquire resources,” she said."
"The European Commission’s Centre of Expertise on #Population and Migration projects that the global population will peak at 9.8 billion in the 2070s.
It is simply because, all over the world, the #TotalFertilityRate (TFR) — the number of live children the average woman bears in her lifetime — has been falling since the 1970s. In one country after another, it has dropped under the 2.1 value of the 'replacement rate'."