Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I guess it's true after all! There is more to life than just stuffing the intestinal yardage. Slobodan Dimitrov John Collier wrote: > > The catastrophic predictions of human population explosion are not > turning out to be true. Birth rates are plummeting all over the world. > The population is now predicted to peak at 10 or so billion and then > start declining. To what is a good question. > > John Collier > > On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 02:59 PM, Amilcar de Oliveira wrote: > > > Hmm, couldnīt find Leica content with a microscope. But interesting > > enough to de-lurk. My two cents (borrowed from the late British SF > > author John Brunner): "The population explosion is unique in the > > history of mankind, an event that has happened yesterday but everybody > > says will happen tomorrow." Or words to that effect. > > > > Regards, > > Amilcar > > > > Nathan Wajsman (private) escreveu: > > > >> Italy does have by far the lowest birth rate in the developed world, > >> at the moment 1.1 children per woman, far below the rate of 2.2 > >> required to keep a population constant (ignoring immigration). Other > >> countries in southern Europe, like Spain, also have very low birth > >> rates, while countries in northern Europe, especially Scandinavia, > >> are actually at or close to the reproduction level. The most > >> plausible explanation I have heard is that Italian or Spanish woman > >> now want to have a career like their sisters in the north, but the > >> society has not caught up with it, so that the men are not willing to > >> help in the household, there is very little child care infrastructure > >> etc. In contrast, in northern Europe or the US/Canada, where women > >> have been on the labor market for decades, it is far easier to be a > >> working mother. > >> > >> Nathan > >> > >> Henning Wulff wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> I think most developed countries have negative growth if immigration > >>> is discounted, including Canada. We generally keep in practice as > >>> well, but we usually proceed without any period of 'acquiring a > >>> taste'. :-) > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html