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Just roughly 1 in 5 Biden supporters believe society would be better off by prioritizing marriage and children, according to Pew.

Our future depends on a tug-of-war between AI and demographics-driven deficits

A small farm future out of practical necessity, then, but also one evincing positive cultural possibilities. But practical necessity is the critical driver.

There’s real work of transformative adaptation to do to rise to present challenges – unsung, grassroots and local.

Population size alone is not the sole determinant of economic growth and well-being.

The scope of this article was to demonstrate how the transformation of societies from traditional societies to market societies was a key driver of the first agricultural revolution and of a rapid growth in population.

This episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, Dominic Glover and Lidia Cabral interviews Glenn Davies Stone author of the book: The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

An enduring progressive myth is that thanks to Western technologies and compassionate NGOs, American agricultural scientists saved the developing world via the Green Revolution

One of the key myths of the twentieth century is the benign role played by international, American-led institutions after the Second World War.