Speaker: Co-Author, Darrell Bricker
According to the United Nations, the world's population reached 7 billion in late 2011. For many, this landmark was seen as a clear sign of crisis, an indication that humans are reproducing unchecked, leading us into a future of increasing poverty, food shortages, conflict, and environmental degradation. But as leading international social researcher Darrell Bricker and award-winning journalist John Ibbitson counterintuitively argue in EMPTY PLANET the opposite scenario should in fact be our main concern. "In roughly three decades, the global population will begin to decline," say Bricker and Ibbitson. "Once that decline begins, it will never end." EMPTY PLANET shares their findings and explores what the plunge in population will look like both locally and globally.
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