Ayou: Shouldn't we be considering how best to manage diversity, rather than encouraging women in the west to have more babies? Toson: I don't believe anything's inevitable. The poor world can get rich. The rich world can choose to have emigration. And i think once we get enter the world of inevitability and the loss of choice, i think it's quite dangerous. So that that's maybe a bargle. What about the oq, we have a question here. Ah, from someone who says, well, are people who don't have large families selfish? Well, in the book, just to simplify things, when i took about this trilema
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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