Robin Hanson has come up with a plan to use the massive national debt of most countries to fund the large enough payments to make $300,000 to $700,000 payments to encourage couples to have enough babies to stop population decline. The U.S. national debt is now officially $33T, but add in promises to pay social …
I, Brian Wang, will be talking with Warren Redlich and @Anything Tesla about the Next Great Power. China vs USA vs India. I will be making a case for ASEAN and Canada. We will discuss demographics, immigration-emigration and people, money and technology. I would say that China is already a Great Power. We will have …
Most people would say that it is impossible for Canada GDP at $2.2 trillion today to pass China’s GDP which is $18.8 trillion. The last year Canada was ahead of China’s GDP was in 1978. Canada’s economy as 33% larger than China’s in 1976. China had 930 million people in 1976 and Canada had 23 …
Japan and South Korea and many other countries are experiencing national demographic crisis due to falling birth rates. In 2023, Japan’s fertility rate was 1.367, which is far below the 2.1 children per woman needed for population stability. South Korea’s fertility rate dropped to a record low of 0.7 in the second quarter of 2023. …
An Israeli team have made the first complete embryo model that mimics all the key structures that emerge in the early embryo. Instead of a sperm and egg, the starting material was naive stem cells which were reprogrammed to gain the potential to become any type of tissue in the body. Chemicals were then used …
Ontario’s population is where California was in 1960. They both had almost 16 million people. California added 4-6 million people each decade for the next 50 years. Canada has added 2 million people mostly through immigration in the last two years and 44% of those people go to Ontario. Canada is on pace to add …
Canada is growing its population by 1.4 to 1.5 million people per year via a robust immigration program and 44% of the people are going to Ontario. 20% of new Canadians go to Alberta, 15% to BC and 13% to Quebec. California’s population peaked 4 years ago at 39.5 million and is now 39 million …
Canada passed 40 million people just 75 days ago but is now on track to have added 300,000 people in 77 days. Canada was adding about 300,000 people each year from 2000 to 2010, but the pace of the last 75 days is 1.44 million people per year. This pace of immigration will reach 50 …
Dr. Jordan B Peterson and Stephen J Shaw discuss the Birthgap, a term recently coined by Shaw– and the subject of his documentary. They examine the invisible causes of the global population collapse. They describe one of the very bad but not worst case scenario: total societal collapse due to a lack of new children …
Over 70% of the World’s population live in countries that are below replacement fertility levels and this includes poor countries like India and Pakistan. 30% of the World’s population is in countries that have declining populations and this includes China, Japan, South Korea, Italy and Spain. Replacement fertility is 2.07 which means a women will …
Futurists Robin Hanson and Brian Wang talk about how the global population crisis can send the world into an innovation and economic dark age which could ruin all hope for other positive future scenarios. Nextbigfuture has had many articles about the important topic of the fertility crisis. A shrinking and aging population can lead to …