Online Videos-covers the concepts in more depth. Book Summary-helps you understand the key concepts.Read this book to find out the key to prospering in this new social, political, and economic landscape. In Empty Planet, John Ibbitson and Darrell Bricker find that a smaller global population will bring with it many benefits: fewer workers will command higher wages the environment will improve the risk of famine will wane and falling birthrates in the developing world will bring greater affluence and autonomy for women. A smaller global population will bring with it many benefits, but enormous disruption lies ahead. It offers a vision of a future that we can no longer prevent-but one that we can shape if we choose. Rather than continuing to increase exponentially, the global population is headed for a steep decline-and in many countries, that decline has already begun.Įmpty Planet explains why by the end of this century the problem won't be overpopulation but a rapidly shrinking global populace. Unless humankind defuses this population bomb, we will face a future of increasing poverty, food shortages, war, and environmental degradation.īut many demographers sound a different alarm. The must-read summary of "Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline," by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson.įor many years, pundits and politicians have warned that the growing global population will soon overwhelm the earth's resources.
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