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Tag Archives: Fertility Rate
Immigration: IPAT
Noah Smith wrote an article in Bloomberg about how to convince the Japanese to have more kids: Japan would like to stabilize its rapidly aging population, and there are really only two ways to do that. It can let in … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability
Tagged Abortion, Adaptation, adult, Affluence, Anthropocene, carbon dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, child, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Contraception, developed countries, Developing Countries, Economics, Economy, Education, elderly, emigrant, Emissions, Energy, Environment, Fertility, Fertility Rate, Fertility Replacement Rate, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Population, Global Warming, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, identity, immigrant, immigration, impact, India, indicator, individual, IPAT, IPCC, Japan, labor force, migration, Mitigation, one child, One-Child Policy, Population, Romania, Romney, social security, Sustainability, Technology, US, World Population
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China – Cap and Trade With Babies?
Last week I started discussing the upcoming COP21 conference in Paris. I talked about the Earth Summit, which sanctioned the IPCCC, and included the near term commitments from the 10 most carbon emitting countries as to reduction of their emissions … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Age Distribution, babies, baby, birth, Cap and Trade, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, China, CO2, CO2 emissions, COP21, Economics, elderly, Emissions, Environment, Equilibrium, Family, Fertility, Fertility Rate, Fertility Replacement Rate, Gender, gender gap, Government, IPCC, Mitigation, One-Child Policy, Policy, Pollution, Population, pregnancy, pregnant, restriction, sex ratio, Sustainability, World Population
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Top-Down Stabilization Attempts
In a previous blog (February 11, 2014) I summarized some of the current measures being taken to reverse the existing trend of fertility rates lowering to below replacement levels in countries throughout the world. These attempts include restricting abortions (although, … Continue reading
Economic Impact of Fertility Rates Below Replacement
The golden rule of free enterprise economy seems to be that everything that contributes to economic growth is good, while anything that detracts from the same is bad. The rationale behind this is that as the population grows, the economy … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropogenic, Baby Boomers, Brazil, Britain, Climate Change, Demographics, Economics, Economy, Fertility, Fertility Rate, Fertility Replacement Rate, Global Population, Growth, Obamacare, Population, Secular Stagnation, Stagnation, Unemployment, Workforce, World Population
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Crossing the Fertility Replacement Rate – the Last 20 Years
As I have shown in previous blogs, long-term (I use 1000 years as the “magic” number – see the December 17, 2013 blog) exponential growth (or decline) cannot continue unabated without serious consequences. Lately, I have emphasized this concept mainly … Continue reading
Crossing the Fertility Replacement Rates – Background
One of the fascinating things in trying to do what I do, be that teaching, writing or lecturing, is to try to anticipate long term future trends, given the ever changing present. Sometimes the present gets my full attention, and … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Age Distribution, Australian Open, Climate Change, Demographics, Extreme Weather, Fertility, Fertility Rate, Fertility Replacement Rate, Global Cooling, Global Population, Global Warming, Jim Foreit, Melbourne, Polar Vortex, Population, Population Decline, Population Growth, Replacement Rate, Stabilizing, Weather, World Population
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Why Do We Care About Inequality?
Happy New Year! My last blog ended with a quote from Karan Singh, a former minister of population in India, who said, “Development is the best contraceptive.” This was supported by data which shows that fertility rates and population growth … Continue reading
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Tagged Bjorn Lomborg, Clean Energy, Climate Change, de Blasio, Education, Emissions, Energy, Environment, Fertility Rate, Fossil Fuels, Gallup, GDP, Global Population, Global Warming, Mayor, New York, NYC, Paul Krugman, Pollution, POP 19, Poverty, Sustainability, Warsaw, WHO, World Population
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Poverty and Population
Happy New Year! My last two blogs raised the issue of a timeline for “absolute” sustainability; one that would give us enough time to move any remnants of the human population to another planet in case we are “successful” in … Continue reading