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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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