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Population levels in former communist countries are diving because of economic decline, the UN says. [BBC News]
BBC Talking point on the subject. Quotes a russian as saying "So, what is there to do? Nothing - we just have to accept that our civilisation is going to die out "
Discussion with Pat Buchanan on "Death of the West". [WorldNetDaily]
"If Italy's fertility will remain at the same level for thirty to forty years, the Italian population will be reduced by one-third."
Russia faces a demographic crisis unprecedented in peacetime - violence, alcohol and poor healthcare are among the reasons. [BBC News]
Disease, drug abuse, poverty and depression cause a sharp fall in Russia's population.[BBC News]
"A sizable swathe of the country's heartland is undergoing a severe drop in births that, if it continues, could empty many small towns in just one generation." [Atlantic Monthly] (July 1, 1997)
"And here's the overwhelming demographic story of our time: Never have birth and fertility rates fallen so far, so fast, so low, for so long, all over the world, yielding populations in decline. That story was buried by the noise of "the population explosion," a powerful trend that peaked decades ago, but which is still promoted by environmental alarmists and their allies in the United Nations." [Jewish World Review]
(March 12, 2001)
National Geographic News story about the hypothesis that past climate variations led to the collapse of civilizations, with speculation on the implications for our society's future.
(February 27, 2001)
New figures predict that Scotland's population will drop over the next 25 years. [BBC News]
(February 01, 2001)
"In fact, no major industrialized country has a fertility rate above 2.1, known as the replacement rate because it is the number of children per woman at which a population replaces itself. The average fertility rate in Europe is 1.45, a rate that could lead, one day, to a severe decline in population. And 22 developing countries have also dropped below this threshold." [NBC News]
(September 06, 1999)
The old assumptions about world population trends need to be rethought. One thing is clear, in the next century the world is in for some rapid downsizing [Atlantic Monthly]
(August 01, 1999)
Discussion with Pat Buchanan on "Death of the West". [WorldNetDaily]
"A sizable swathe of the country's heartland is undergoing a severe drop in births that, if it continues, could empty many small towns in just one generation." [Atlantic Monthly] (July 1, 1997)
"If Italy's fertility will remain at the same level for thirty to forty years, the Italian population will be reduced by one-third."
Disease, drug abuse, poverty and depression cause a sharp fall in Russia's population.[BBC News]
Population levels in former communist countries are diving because of economic decline, the UN says. [BBC News]
BBC Talking point on the subject. Quotes a russian as saying "So, what is there to do? Nothing - we just have to accept that our civilisation is going to die out "
Russia faces a demographic crisis unprecedented in peacetime - violence, alcohol and poor healthcare are among the reasons. [BBC News]
"And here's the overwhelming demographic story of our time: Never have birth and fertility rates fallen so far, so fast, so low, for so long, all over the world, yielding populations in decline. That story was buried by the noise of "the population explosion," a powerful trend that peaked decades ago, but which is still promoted by environmental alarmists and their allies in the United Nations." [Jewish World Review]
(March 12, 2001)
National Geographic News story about the hypothesis that past climate variations led to the collapse of civilizations, with speculation on the implications for our society's future.
(February 27, 2001)
New figures predict that Scotland's population will drop over the next 25 years. [BBC News]
(February 01, 2001)
"In fact, no major industrialized country has a fertility rate above 2.1, known as the replacement rate because it is the number of children per woman at which a population replaces itself. The average fertility rate in Europe is 1.45, a rate that could lead, one day, to a severe decline in population. And 22 developing countries have also dropped below this threshold." [NBC News]
(September 06, 1999)
The old assumptions about world population trends need to be rethought. One thing is clear, in the next century the world is in for some rapid downsizing [Atlantic Monthly]
(August 01, 1999)
