Hi All,
I subscribed to Wired magazine and read an article on Elon Musk's latest rant.
Would you listen to Elon Musk on anything beyond business? Not me.
Musk says - people do not have enough babies. Demographers say that's nonsense, and there's no such population crisis on the horizon. However, some people will use this misinformation to support their reasons for reducing human rights.
Maybe Musk has been watching too much of Neon's Handmaid's Tale.
cheers,
Donna
I subscribed to Wired magazine and read an article on Elon Musk's latest rant.
Would you listen to Elon Musk on anything beyond business? Not me.
Musk says - people do not have enough babies. Demographers say that's nonsense, and there's no such population crisis on the horizon. However, some people will use this misinformation to support their reasons for reducing human rights.
“With 8 billion people and counting on the earth, we don’t see a collapse happening at present time, and it’s not even projected,” says Tomas Sobotka at the Vienna Institute of Demography. Even the most pessimistic projections put the world population in 2100 at around 8.8 billion. This is far below the UN’s more widely agreed-upon estimate of 10.4 billion, but it’s still about 800 million more people than are on the planet today. Most projections agree that the world’s population is going to peak at some point in the second half of the 21st century and then plateau or gradually drop. Framing this as a collapse “is probably too dramatic,” says Patrick Gerland, chief of the United Nations’ Population Estimates and Projections Section.
According to the UN, the only region that will see an overall decline between 2022 and 2050 is eastern and southeastern Asia. Other regions tell a completely different story. The population in sub-Saharan Africa will almost double from 1.2 billion in 2022 to just under 2.1 billion in 2050. In the same period, India’s population will grow by over 250 million to overtake China’s as the largest in the world. For most of the world, population decline just isn’t something to worry about—“either now or in the foreseeable future,” Gerland says.
cheers,
Donna

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