OPINION | Aging bomb By Marvin Tort READ:
onspiracy theorists warn of nefarious efforts, mainly science-based, by wealthy industrialists to deliberately cut the global population, as a way of saving the planet. I don’t give much credibility to such theories as I also doubt very much if war, plague, pandemic, hunger, or whatever science-based machinations perpetrated are enough to drastically reduce the world’s population.
They noted that the world population has already gone beyond eight billion, growing by a billion in just 12 years. And this brings up “long-standing fears associated with rapid population growth, including food shortages, rampant unemployment, the depletion of natural resources, and unchecked environmental degradation.” But they also noted “the most formidable demographic challenge facing the world is no longer rapid population growth, but population aging.
“What is fast becoming universal is that population aging is the most pervasive and dominant global demographic trend, owing to declining fertility, increasing longevity, and the progression of large cohorts into older ages,” they added. And these, Bloom and Zucker wrote, “portend a colossal set of health, social, and economic challenges in the coming decades. They also signal the heretofore unlikely prospect of widespread depopulation.
“Addressing all these challenges [posed by aging] will require meaningful changes in lifestyle behaviors, public and private investments, institutional and policy reforms, and technological innovation and adoption.
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