As Canada's fertility rates declines, the debate over how to respond will get ugly
Declining fertility is stoking the most divisive debates of our time and the arguments over how to deal with it will not be pretty
Source: theglobeandmail.com
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Humanity is facing an age-old problem — we're simply not having enough babies
What do we do when we run out of people? In a country that apparently doesn’t have enough of anything to go round — houses, nursery places, tomatoes — population decline hardly feels like a pressing concern. But it is in the post, here and everywhere else in the world.Globally the fertility rate is
Source: thetimes.co.uk
Japanese Prime Minister Warns of Imminent Societal Collapse Due to Low Birth Rate
Japan’s prime minister is raising the alarm over the country’s dire population problem, due to its collapsing fertility rate.
Elon Musk Jumio Kishida Darrell Bricker Japanese Ministry Of Health World Bank Minister Jumio Kishida
Source: focusonthefamily.com
The Club Of Rome At 50 Years Old
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
Source: zerohedge.com
VALLEY PULPIT: Where did all the people go?
Swiss Chalet in Huntsville advises that you may have to wait longer to be seated due to only one server working. In Barry’s Bay the Tim Horton’s closes at 3…
Source: countyweeklynews.ca
Earth's population reaches 8-billion milestone, but this upward trend may not continue for long
On Tuesday, the United Nations officially marked the day the global population reached eight billion people. While the population has been rapidly increasing since the 1960s, this trend could come to an end before the end of the century.
Darrell Bricker Patrick Gerland Ipsos Public Affairs United Nations Population Prospects Munk School
Source: cbc.ca
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In today's Morning Brief: despite increasingly urgent calls from doctors for a renewed mask mandate in Ontario, the province is leaving masking up to individuals at a time when, experts say, governments are wary of a backlash over public health restrictions.
Source: cbc.ca
The earth now has 8 billion humans; is the notion of a 'finite planet' a myth?
More than numbers, humanity needs to consider how resources are produced and distributed, what is consumed, by whom, and how much
Source: downtoearth.org.in
Do Fewer Births Bring More Prosperity? : Learnings from Global Experiences
Decline and Prosper! Changing Global Birth Rates and the Advantages of Fewer Children by Vegard Skirbekk, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp 396, `1,192.
Source: epw.in