Transnational InstituteHunger is not a scourge but a scandal. This is the premise of Susan George's classic study of world hunger. Contrary to popular opinion, malnutrition and starvation are not the result of over-population, of poor climate or lack of c
Gail Tverberg: "In my view, oil and gas resource limits are major contributors to the conflict in Syria. This is happening in several ways: 1. Syria is an oil exporter that is in increasingly perilous financial condition because of depleting oil resources. When oil production is increasing, it can help an oil exporter in two ways: (a) part of the of the oil supply can be used internally, to grow more food and to support increased industry, and (b) exports of oil can be used to provide revenue for governmental programs such as food subsidies, education, and building highways. Syria’s population grew from 8.8 million in 1980 to 22.8 million in 2012, at least in part because of the wealth available from oil extraction."
AT no point in recorded history has our world been so demographically lopsided, with old people concentrated in rich countries and the young in not-so-rich countries. Cf.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2177.html
The rise in global life expectancy for men and women by about six years is mainly the result of dramatic advances in health care, according to a study published in the journal Lancet.
...once the population replacement rate R dips below 1, corresponding to a per-woman fertility rate of less than about 2.1 in a balanced age structure, then, apart from immigration which is inherently a temporary fix, the economic cost/benefit of having children becomes inexorably worse over time. To the extent that a rich society actually needs citizens with specialized and expensive educations – and perhaps it doesn’t – it is hard to see any path to reversing this unfavorable balance. A dramatic reduction in resource costs might do it, or a miracle of technology, or successful wars of conquest – but none of these seem very probable. / När befolkningsersättningsgraden R sjunker under 1, vilket motsvarar en fertilitetsgrad per kvinna på mindre än cirka 2,1 i en balanserad åldersstruktur, blir den ekonomiska kostnaden/nyttan av att skaffa barn obönhörligt sämre med tiden, bortsett från invandring som till sin natur är en tillfällig lösning. I den mån ett rikt samhälle faktiskt behöver medborgare med specialiserade och dyra utbildningar - och kanske behöver det inte det - är det svårt att se någon väg för att vända denna ogynnsamma balans. En dramatisk minskning av resurskostnaderna skulle kunna göra det, eller ett tekniskt mirakel, eller framgångsrika erövringskrig - men inget av detta verkar särskilt troligt.
No society with fertility below replacement level has yet recovered. / Inget samhälle med en fertilitet under ersättningsnivån har ännu återhämtat sig.
USA Today 4 juni 2020:
The DOD and HHS did contract with ApiJect Systems, a company that makes pre-filled syringes, for a mass-production supply chain during an emergency. RFID/NFC tracking is an optional feature of the syringes, according to the RAPID Consortium.
But there is no evidence the contract is a precursor to law-enforced vaccination on the federal or state levels. Trump said that once the coronavirus vaccine becomes available, immunization will be optional. Moreover, generally states only require vaccinations for certain individuals.
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Time mag 30 Jun 2014 the intrauterine device (IUD). Among its selling points were the fact that the IUD is hassle-free, lasting three to 12 years without maintenance or replacement, depending on the brand. It’s also practically fool-proof, on par with female sterilization or vasectomy at preventing pregnancy. By the late 1980s, there was interest among some health groups to bring back the IUD, particularly outside the U.S. “The Mirena IUD got pioneered in Europe in the early ’90s and caught on like wildfire,” says Minkin. Today, 23% of French women using contraception have an IUD; 27% of Norwegians; and 41% of women in China. In the U.S., the percentage of women with an IUD still hovers around 9.