There's a theory that in an older world, we'll have fewer wars because of population overspill excess suns. To what extent do you think the russia ukraine conflict between two low fertility powers? Does that represent any sort of a refutation of hass argument? Or do you think it doesn't really, you know, it's just the exception that proves the rule? Well, i broadly agreed with has argument. And there is no doubt, notwithstanding what's happening in russia and ukraine, that the really big conflicts, in terms of loss of life in the last 20, 30 years, have been in countries like libya and syria and y
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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