Fewer : how the new demography of depopulation will shape our future /
For at least 650 years, since the time of the Black Plague, the world's population has headed in only one direction: up. But within a few decades the number of people on earth will level off and then will likely decline over an extended period of time. In Fewer, the author explains how and why...
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Chicago :
Ivan R. Dee,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- What happened and why?: the story of this book
- And then there were many fewer
- Less developed, less fertility
- America the exceptional: the baby makers
- America the exceptional: immigrant takers
- The culture of alarmism
- Why?
- What can happen: the graybe boom
- Business
- The environment
- Geopolitics
- Is there an immigration solution
- Problems, pride, perplexity: numbers matter.