{"id":7194,"date":"2019-03-23T10:15:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T10:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?p=7194"},"modified":"2022-08-30T21:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T21:36:01","slug":"comment-by-danny-dorling-on-empty-planet-the-shock-of-global-population-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?p=7194","title":{"rendered":"Comment by Danny Dorling on &#8220;Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A provocative vision of the future in which the global population plummets, dramatically reshaping the social, political and economic landscape.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While depopulation may provide many benefits, such as higher wages for workers, improving the environment and more autonomy for women, there are (it is suggested) also disadvantages, such as worker shortages and ageing populations. This event will touched upon a wealth of research to illustrate the dramatic consequences of population decline, both good and bad, here are Danny&#8217;s brief comments:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"Audioboom player\" src=\"\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/7210499-comment-by-danny-dorling-on-empty-planet-the-shock-of-global-population-decline\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAAFgEllwDBm4A\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe Keynote speaker was&nbsp;<strong>Darrell Bricker<\/strong>, Chief Executive of Ipsos Public Affairs &amp; author of Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Panelists were<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Kaufmann<\/strong>, Professor of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London &amp; author of Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities<\/p>\n<p><strong>Danny Dorling<\/strong>, Geographer, University of Oxford<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robin Maynard<\/strong>, Director, Population Matters<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah Crofts<\/strong>, Head of Analysis for Ageing and Demography, Office for National Statistics<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kelly Beaver<\/strong>, Managing Director, Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute (chair)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The earlier book Danny was referring to, (Population 10 billion) which suggested a year 2100 population of 9 billion was more likely than 10 billion, can be found<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/books\/10billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> her<\/a>e:<\/p>\n<p>And with Stuart Gietel-Basten his most recent book on demography is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/books\/demography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this one:<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6258\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6258\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6258\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/cover-723x1024.png\" alt=\"Why Demography Matters?\" width=\"605\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/cover-723x1024.png 723w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/cover-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/cover-768x1087.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/cover.png 1239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why Demography Matters?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A provocative vision of the future in which the global population plummets, dramatically reshaping the social, political and economic landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8953,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions\/8953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}