When you survey the mainstream media coverage on the issue of global population, it is overwhelmingly dominated by heightened fears of over-population, but very little in terms of under-population. Certainly, the term eugenics comes to mind when analyzing the dominant mainstream institutionalized Malthusian thinking. But is this the correct, or indeed, the most accurate approach to this issue when even the UN is expecting global numbers to peak by 2100?
In this fascinating and harrowing discussion on the reality of our population, guests Darrel Bricker and John Ibbitson co-authors of, “Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline,” explain why they believe that Malthusian predictions of over-population have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, the global population is approaching a ‘decline’ phase. The Agenda discusses our ‘shrinking planet’ and the myriad challenges it poses. The numbers don’t lie. Watch: