Population 10 Billion
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Narrated by:
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Mike Grady
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By:
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Danny Dorling
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Before May 2011 the top demographics experts of the United Nations had suggested that world population would peak at 9.1 billion in 2100, and then fall to 8.5 billion people by 2150. In contrast, the 2011 revision suggested that 9.1 billion would be achieved much earlier, maybe by 2050 or before, and by 2100 there would be 10.1 billion of us. What's more, they implied that global human population might still be slightly rising in our total numbers a century from now. So what shall we do? Are there too many people on the planet? Is this the end of life as we know it?
Distinguished geographer Professor Danny Dorling thinks we should not worry so much and that, whatever impending doom may be around the corner, we will deal with it when it comes. In a series of fascinating chapters he charts the rise of the human race from its origins to its end-point of population 10 billion. Thus he shows that while it took until about 1988 to reach 5 billion we reached 6 billion by 2000, 7 billion eleven years later and will reach 8 billion by 2025. By recording how we got here, Dorling is able to show us the key issues that we face in the coming decades: how we will deal with scarcity of resources; how our cities will grow and become more female; why the change that we should really prepare for is the population decline that will occur after 10 billion.
Population 10 Billion is a major work by one of the world's leading geographers and will change the way you think about the future. Packed full of counter-intuitive ideas and observations, this book is a tool kit to prepare for the future and to help us ask the right questions.
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- 01-11-18
worth a read
Interesting read but got a touch political for my taste. the author clearly has a left wing bias.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-10-20
Very left wing viewpoint
I thought not political book yet author view are quite strong left wing not true assignments of over population. The Author is not worried about over population this waste of book this book could be opportunitie for a case of over population but it is contradictions of fact.
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- Storey
- 30-11-22
Poor quality content with worse narrator delivery
The delivery of this audiobook can be described as aurally assaulting - never before have I listened to something read by a more boring monotone voice. The narrator is certainly clear, but I've never been less inclined to listen to someone's voice. How Mike Grady became a narrator is as beyond comprehension.
The content and style of Danny Dorling's book is also of poor quality, such as his overly optimistic right wing claim that population increase isn't a problem, and that overconsumption is instead the problem (a demographer should know that all humans consume and that population increase is a multiplier of consumption and as consumption cannot be zero the population crisis must be a problem). Though he rightly points out that population growth in western, more polluting countries, is slowing though this doesn't resolve the problem of population rise globally. Moreover his assertion that child-free individuals, who may make the decision to forgo reproduction on an environmental basis, are narcissistic, is both incorrect and insulting. I would strongly recommend anyone interested in the ecology of human population levels choose less naive reading material.
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