population implosion?

t byfield tbyfield at panix.com
Mon Oct 25 13:44:27 PDT 1999


[this just in from slashdot--go figger...]

<http://www.pop.org/students/popimplode.html>

Congressional Briefing 23Feb98 World Population Implosion? Nicholas Eberstadt[*]

Over the past several years, some of the world's best demographers

have begun a dramatic reassessment of the world's demographic

future. They are now seriously proposing the possibility that the

world¹s population will peak in our lifetimes, and then commence an

indefinite decline. At a time when all manner of potential

"population problems" are regularly accorded official attention by

national and international authorities, the neglect that has to

date greeted the possibility of a long-term reduction of human

numbers is curious, and striking. <...>

[*] a researcher with the American Enterprise Institute and the

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. This

piece is digested from "World Population Implosion?

Speculations About the Demographics of De-population," The

Public Interest, Fall 1997.



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