Elon musk recently tweated quotaqo, population collapse is the biggest threat to civilization. i want to introduce a counter perspective, which is very much obscure compared to peterson and musk. This is from two academics who write in an academic journal called evolution and human behaviour. They argue that number of children you have is related to the number of children your parents and grandparents have. And their argument is essentially that fertilityat tends to increase. So i think a lack of people in large parts of the world will be a problem if africa still has boomy, booming fertility rates. You can walk all the way from the straits of jeho and singapore and malasia
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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