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By 2050 there will be 9 billion carbon-burning, plastic-polluting, calorie-consuming people on the planet. By 2100, that number will balloon to 11 billion, pushing society into a Soylent Green scenario. Such dire population predictions aren't the stuff of sci-fi; those numbers come from one of the most trusted world authorities, the United Nations.
But what if they're wrong? Not like, off by a rounding error, but like totally, completely goofed?
That's the conclusion Canadian journalist John Ibbitson and political scientist Darrel Bricker come to in their newest book, Empty Planet, due out February 5th. After painstakingly breaking down the numbers for themselves, the pair arrived at a drastically different prediction for the future of the human species. "In roughly three decades, the global population will begin to decline," they write. "Once that decline begins, it will never end."
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Who do you think is right ? The United Nations or Darrel Bricker/John Ibbitson ?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday February 05 2019, @09:25AM
However, it wasn't Christians in the US I was referring to - they do indeed have good access to information that adequately counters their iron-age worldview. The billion I was referring to *deliberately* try to restrict access to information that might be contradictory to their 700-years-younger-yet-mysteriously-more-bronze-age-than-iron-age worldview.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves