The coming population crash
Pearce chronicles nearly 200 years of demographic issues, beginning with efforts to contain the demographic explosion, from the early environmental movement's racism and involvement in eugenics to coercive family-planning policies in China and India.
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What Hacker News says
- Thanks! My comment is basically a tl;dr of a book I read called "The Coming Population Crash and Our Planet's Surprising Future" (http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-Population-Crash-Surprising...).
Terrible title for a great book that isn't nearly as alarmist as it sounds. If anything it covers how we're not breeding to replacement numbers and are facing labour shortages as our current population ages in the developed world.
- And maybe once you're done with that, you can read a rebuttal of sorts:
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Population-Crash-Planets-Surpri...
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