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Lyman Stone: Growing the Population - A Kitchen Sink Approach

From the New World

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The Problem With Demographic Transitions

Theory goes like this: humanity had high fertility and high mortality in approximately stable or low growth population. Fertility fell, mortality, or mortality fell first. That led people to not need to have as many babies. Then we reached the modern period of low fertility, low mortality, and we thought it'd be stable. But maybe it's not stable. Maybe now we have a second demographic transition of super low fertility.

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