Last year the u.K. Admitted just over a million people. It has been estimated that to build enough houses to accommodate the expected six million increase in population over the next 20 years, weould need to throw up an average of two thousand, 300 houses per week. The argument against this is emigration from higher fertility regions. What is your view of this? My view is it's a choice that countries have to make. If they won't have families of a reasonable size, then societies will be faced with the choice of least societies that have got the luxury of being able to attract imigrants. So onow, i thinkit really is about the choicest that countries
Does the world have too many people – or not enough? That’s one of the big questions that demographer Paul Morland seeks to answer in his new book, Tomorrow’s People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers. Demography is the study of groups of people and how they behave, drawing from adjacent fields such as anthropology, sociology, history and economics. For this discussion focusing on political demography, Paul is joined in conversation by our host, Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College in London.
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