Americans aren’t just waiting longer to have kids and having fewer once they start—they’re less likely to have any at all.
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Articles
The World’s Population May Peak in Your Lifetime. What Happens Next? ―New York Times
The global human population has been climbing for the past two centuries. But what is normal for all of us alive today — growing up while the world is growing rapidly — may be a blip in human history.
The Repugnant Conclusion is a puzzle that has occupied philosophers and economists for decades. 29 scholars just published a new agreement. ―Medium
It may be time to move on from the Repugnant Conclusion.
Interviews
After the Spike Penn State DeJong Lecture
Population, Progress, and the Case for People
Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives
In this episode of the 80,000 hours podcast, host Luisa Rodriguez speaks to Dean Spears — associate professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin and founding director of r.i.c.e. — about his experience implementing a surprisingly low-tech but highly cost-effective kangaroo mother care programme in Uttar Pradesh, India to save the lives of vulnerable newborn infants.
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After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
An eye-opening exploration of humanity’s unprecedented path to global depopulation and its significance from economists Dean Spears and Michael Geruso.
