Population growth is not just aggregate number of people being born and or dying in the world. It's unevenness of that growth across the surface of the earth, say, between nation states,. Between ethmic groups. And that changes the composition and the power balance, perhaps, of differenc nation states and groups. The human tide was this idea of the anticipation or fear of population growth as a driver independent from what's actually happening to population growth.
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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