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Whiff After Whiff

June 11, 2024

Whiff After Whiff Image by Anne and Saturnino Miranda from Pixabay The word “whiff” is used in baseball to describe when the batter swings and makes no contact with the pitched ball. The term presumably derives from the sound of hitting nothing but air. This off-sequence post acts as a brief update that I wanted […]

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U.K. Population Collapse “Good for the Planet”, WEF Adviser Prof Sarah Harper Explains

August 21, 2023

U.K. Population Collapse “Good for the Planet”, WEF Adviser Prof Sarah Harper Explains Remember how depopulation was called a right-wing conspiracy theory? Things have changed, and ‘population collapse’, which can no longer be denied, is now good for us! The Telegraph picked the perfect messenger to communicate the new way we should think about population declines. A high-level WEF adviser tells us: Oxford Professor Sarah […]

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Declining sperm counts: Nature’s answer to overpopulation?

March 4, 2021

Declining sperm counts: Nature’s answer to overpopulation? Epidemiologist Shanna Swan projects that on current trends sperm counts will reach zero by 2045. That shocking conclusion comes from a new book by Swan and her colleague Stacey Colino. Is this nature’s way of bringing human population under control? (More on that later.) In a 2017 study Swan and colleagues looked at […]

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Forecast What?

February 4, 2021

Forecast What? Roy Lichtenstein Woman With Flowered Hat 1963Well, Dr. D is back again. You might want to sit down for this one.Dr. D: In my last article I wrote about cows and hay and unrealistic estimates of production of the land. But surely that is all academic. What could possibly force Americans to once again eat by […]

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End of Growth Among “Haves” Dooms Growth Among “Haves” & “Have Nots” Alike

September 12, 2018

End of Growth Among “Haves” Dooms Growth Among “Haves” & “Have Nots” Alike The global economic system is premised on growth, not just any growth, but growth where it matters (economically).  However, population growth (the foundation of economic growth) among the high and upper middle income nations of the world is rapidly winding down.  As I have outlined […]

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Is Population Decline Catastrophic?

October 7, 2017

Is Population Decline Catastrophic? In the 1970’s we heard the earth was going to get so crowded we’d be falling off. Now the panickers have flipped to population decline. They were wrong in the 70’s, so are they wrong again? Is a declining population catastrophic? Countries from Germany to Japan are investing in mass immigration […]

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The “Limits to Growth” was right: Italy’s population starts declining.

March 2, 2016

The “Limits to Growth” was right: Italy’s population starts declining. The “base case” scenario described in the 2004 edition of “The Limits to Growth”, an update of the original study sponsored by the Club of Rome and published in 1972. Note how the world’s population is supposed to start declining some years after the peaking […]

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