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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.