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Shadow Children (Book series) - Families are allowed two children maximum, and "shadow children" (third children and beyond) are subject to be killed. 2 B R 0 2 B (Book) - Aging is cured and each new life requires the sacrifice of another in order to maintain a stable population. 2BR02B: To Be or Naught to Be (Movie) - Based on the above book.
Birth dearth was coined by Ben J. Wattenberg in his 1987 book Birth Dearth. This term refers to the declining fertility rates observed in many modern industrialized nations. It is often cited as a response to overpopulation.
Population decline, also known as depopulation, is a reduction in a human population size. Throughout history, Earth's total human population has continued to grow; however, current projections suggest that this long-term trend of steady population growth may be coming to an end.
The mention of underpopulation states that it is not a term that is in opposition to overpopulation; this is incorrect. Underpopulation can be defined as a country which does not have a sufficient population to exploit (use) all the resources within a country to their full extent. There are arguments that countries with populations that are not ...
The demographic crisis. It’s on the minds of many of the business world’s heavy hitters as the realization sets in that the developed world is not having enough children.
This term is a simple definition of economic productivity as well as individual standard of living. The real change in total GDP is defined as the change in population plus the real change in GDP/capita. [4] The table below shows that historically, for every major region of the world, both of these have been positive.
The book predicted population growth would lead to famine, societal collapse, and other social, environmental and economic strife in the coming decades, and advocated for policies to curb it. [ 15 ] [ 36 ] [ 110 ] The Club of Rome published the influential report The Limits to Growth in 1972, which used computer modeling to similarly argue that ...
Overpopulation or overabundance is a state in which the population of a species is larger than the carrying capacity of its environment.This may be caused by increased birth rates, lowered mortality rates, reduced predation or large scale migration, leading to an overabundant species and other animals in the ecosystem competing for food, space, and resources.