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Easing Fear and One-Child Policy in Guangdong
Parents of newborn babies in southern China's Guangdong Province will no longer have to prove they obediently limited, through any means including forced abortion, the size of their nuclear families.
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Development: Slow down population growth
Within a decade, women everywhere should have access to quality contraceptive services, argues John Bongaarts.
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Japan Census: Population Fell Nearly 1 Million in 2010-15
Japan's latest census confirmed the hard reality long ago signaled by shuttered shops and abandoned villages across the country: the population is shrinking. Japan's population stood at 127.1 million last fall, down 0.7 percent from 128.1 million in 2010, according to results of the 2015 census, released Friday. The 947,000 decline in the population in the last five years was the first since the once-every-five-years count started in 1920.
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We’re Not Going To Make It…
…without real sacrifice. By Chris Martenson.
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A Male Surplus: Men outnumber women across Europe
Swedes do not quite know what to make of their sudden surplus of males. For the first time since records began back in 1749, the country now has more men than women. This is highly unusual in the West, where women historically have been in the majority in almost every country. But it may be a sign of things to come in Europe, as changes in life expectancy and migration transform demographics.
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As Japan’s population shrinks, bears and boars roam where schools and shrines once thrived
The red-roofed temple at the top of the hill closed about a decade ago, and now Yoshihiro Shibata can’t even remember its name, though the 54-year-old dairy farmer has lived in this picturesque village all his life. By Julie Makinen.
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We knew Japan had a sex problem. We just didn't know how bad it was until now
Japan's demographic challenges are well-known: It's home to the world's oldest population and has a shrinking birthrate and an astonishing number of single people. And it seems that, despite government efforts to incentivise marriage and child-rearing, things aren't quite trending in the right direction.
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Bioethicist: The climate crisis calls for fewer children
Earlier this summer, I found myself in the middle of a lively debate because of my work on climate change and the ethics of having children. NPR correspondent Jennifer Ludden profiled some of my work in procreative ethics with an article entitled, “Should we be having kids in the age of climate change?,” which summarized my published views that we ought to consider adopting a “small family ethic” and even pursuing fertility reduction efforts in response to the threat from climate change.
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Preventing overpopulation could curb climate change
Each day, an estimated 350,000 babies are born worldwide, outnumbering the number deaths, and adding to a growing population. And while it may not be an obvious link, this overpopulation could be increasing the pace of climate change. Dr Travis Rieder, a moral philosophy professor and bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University, explains why the key to stopping climate change is reducing the number of babies born each year.
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There’s a Global Crisis Looming: By 2030, Four Out of 10 People Won’t Have Access to Water
Experts predict that in just 14 years, the world will face a catastrophic water deficit. By Reynard Loki. (Oct. 18, 2016)
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Why South Korea predicts its end will come in 2750
South Korea may be doomed. A recent study, conducted by the National Assembly Research Service in Seoul, predicts that the country will reach zero inhabitants by 2750. The report makes it clear where the country's problem lies: A remarkably low birth rate of 1.19 children per woman. But what's really striking is the speed at which it could happen: South Korea's population (currently larger than Spain) could shrink to a level comparable to tiny Switzerland within only a few generations.
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You're More Likely to Die in a Human Extinction Event Than a Car Crash
Nuclear war. Climate change. Pandemics that kill tens of millions. These are the most viable threats to globally organized civilization. They’re the stuff of nightmares and blockbusters—but unlike sea monsters or zombie viruses, they’re real, part of the calculus that political leaders consider everyday. A new report from the U.K.-based Global Challenges Foundation urges us to take them seriously. The nonprofit began its annual report on “global catastrophic risk” with a startling provocation...
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How we became more than 7 billion – humanity’s population explosion, visualised | Aeon Videos
From our origins in Africa, humans began migrating around the globe roughly 100,000 years ago. But it was only with the advent of agriculture about 12,000 years ago that our population started to swell to more than a million. This data visualisation from the American Museum of Natural History beautifully charts humanity’s stunning – and increasingly alarming – exponential expansion to our current population of roughly 7.4 billion.
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Fewer children per man than per woman: Birthrates for men in Germany made available for the first time
Research on men's birthrates have so far been rather a blind spot. Max Planck researchers have now calculated the missing age data for men using statistical methods. Their figures show that men on average have less children than women and have them later in life. Differences are especially strong in eastern Germany, where men set a new world record for low fertility.
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Muslim babies born will outnumber Christian births by 2035
Muslim mothers will have more babies than Christian women by 2035, a new study has found. Christianity is currently the largest religion in the world, with Christians making up almost one third of Earth’s 7.3 billion people in 2015. Islam comes in second, with 1.8 billion Muslims globally. But in less than 20 years’ time this is expected to change, the Pew Research Centre found, with Muslim births modestly exceeding Christian births to make Islam the world’s fastest-growing major religious group.
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Population Increase and Its Implications
World population keeps increasing. Humanity spreads all over the world just like a cancer, causes other species to go extinct, and changes the face of the earth. The net population in the world continues to increase at an alarming rate.
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Japan’s population set to plummet by 40 million in a generation
Japan’s population is set to plummet from 127 million to 88 million by 2065 - and is projected to drop even further to just 51 million by 2115 if current trends continue. The bleak forecast from the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research places greater pressure on the Japanese government to address its population problem, which has been described by economists as a “demographic time bomb”.
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The Oldest Problem in American Prisons
No prison demographic is growing as fast as the elderly. Of the 6.7 million people under correctional supervision in 2015 (“more than were enslaved in antebellum America and more than resided in the Gulag Archipelago at the height of Stalin’s misrule,” Adam Gopnik recently pointed out in the New Yorker), over 10 percent were geriatric (55 years or older)—a 400 percent demographic increase since 1993, according to a 2013 report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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Japan's sex problem could cause the population to fall by 40 million by 2065
Japan's fertility problem hit a new low last year: 2016 was the first year since 1899 that fewer than one million babies were born in the country. New data suggests the trend isn't poised to let up anytime soon. Japan's National Institute of Population and Social Security Research predicts that the country's current population of 127 million will decline by nearly 40 million by 2065. Demographic experts point to younger generations' waning interest (and ability) to start families, along with low immigration rates, as the primary causes of the decline.
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Elon Musk: The world's population is accelerating toward collapse and nobody cares
Elon Musk usually tweets about mundane topics, from LA traffic to Tesla projects. On Thursday he was more dire. "The world's population is accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care," Tesla's CEO tweeted to his nearly 10 million followers. He pointed to a November article in New Scientist magazine titled, "The world in 2076: The population bomb has imploded."
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