{"id":65669,"date":"2023-08-21T05:12:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T10:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65669"},"modified":"2023-08-21T05:12:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T10:12:49","slug":"u-k-population-collapse-good-for-the-planet-wef-adviser-prof-sarah-harper-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65669","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Population Collapse \u201cGood for the Planet\u201d, WEF Adviser Prof Sarah Harper Explains"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.K. Population Collapse \u201cGood for the Planet\u201d, WEF Adviser Prof Sarah Harper Explains<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Remember how depopulation<\/em>\u00a0was called a\u00a0right-wing<\/em>\u00a0conspiracy theory<\/em><\/a>? Things have changed, and \u2018population collapse\u2019, which can no longer be denied, is now\u00a0good for us<\/em>!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The\u00a0Telegraph<\/em>\u00a0picked the perfect messenger<\/a>\u00a0to communicate the new way we should think about population declines. A\u00a0high-level WEF adviser<\/em>\u00a0tells us:<\/p>\n

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Oxford\u00a0Professor Sarah Harper<\/a>\u00a0is a very important person. The\u00a0Telegraph<\/em>\u00a0article listing her credentials\u00a0forgot to mention<\/em>\u00a0that she serves on the\u00a0Global Agenda Council on Ageing Societies of the\u00a0World Economic Forum.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Prof Harper is thrilled about recent declines in fertility:<\/p>\n

Prof Harper told the\u00a0Telegraph<\/em>: \u201cI think it\u2019s a good thing that the high-income, high-consuming countries of the world are reducing the number of children that they\u2019re having. I\u2019m quite positive about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The academic said declining fertility in rich countries would help to address the \u201cgeneral overconsumption that we have at the moment\u201d, which has a negative impact on the planet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most importantly, declines in births will bring about\u00a0reductions in CO2 emissions<\/em>\u00a0from wealthy nations, Prof Harper points out:<\/p>\n

Research has found that\u00a0wealthy nations tend to have much larger carbon footprints than poorer countries<\/em>, as rich people can afford to buy more goods, travel more and do other activities that generate emissions.<\/p>\n

Carbon emissions from high-income countries were 29 times larger than low-income countries on a per capita basis in 2020, World Bank figures show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Population Declines or Population Replacement?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the strange part: If the leadership of the World Economic Forum wanted to reduce emissions from wealthy countries, I could understand how they would hope that\u00a0population reductions<\/em>\u00a0would lead to a\u00a0decline in economic output<\/em>. Aside from moral implications, it is simple math that\u00a0fewer people<\/em>\u00a0means\u00a0fewer cars<\/em>\u00a0on the road,\u00a0less food consumed<\/em>\u00a0and so on.<\/p>\n

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U.K. Population Collapse \u201cGood for the Planet\u201d, WEF Adviser Prof Sarah Harper Explains Remember how depopulation\u00a0was called a\u00a0right-wing\u00a0conspiracy theory? Things have changed, and \u2018population collapse\u2019, which can no longer be denied, is now\u00a0good for us! The\u00a0Telegraph\u00a0picked the perfect messenger\u00a0to communicate the new way we should think about population declines. A\u00a0high-level WEF adviser\u00a0tells us: Oxford\u00a0Professor Sarah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6],"tags":[33918,5561,33917,1537,1371,8011,12729,33919,3659,14742,889],"class_list":["post-65669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-daily-sceptic","tag-depopulation","tag-igor-chudov","tag-immigration","tag-population","tag-population-control","tag-population-decline","tag-sarah-harper","tag-telegraph","tag-wef","tag-world-economic-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65670,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65669\/revisions\/65670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}