Engelsk titel: "Do not panic!" The myth of the population explosion
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Författare:
Bergström, Staffan
Email: staffan.bergstrom@ki.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 14
Dokumenttyp:
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UI-nummer: 18020129
Sammanfattning
The term ”population explosion” was coined and used around 1950 and
revived Malthusian beliefs about the disparity between population growth
and food supply in the world. The compulsory sterilizations in India in
the 1970s then led to the questioning of ”population control”. ”Sexual and
Reproductive Health and Rights” (SRHR) was preferred instead of ”family
planning”. The insight into falling fertility in Europe, Asia, North and South
America helped to undermine ”population explosion” as an axiom. By demonstrating
this fertility downturn, and the increasing lifespan, Hans Rosling
showed that we soon reach the peak child, ie the number of children stays
at about 2 billion and does not increase, while the rapidly increasing number
of older people constitute a new ”population problem”. There is a 95%
probability that the world’s population would maximally reach slightly more
than 13 billions in 2100.