Well, he probably has 1,000's of barrels of "Trump Vodka" left over from that failed venture. No point letting it go to waste. You will all be shocked, shocked that the bottle producer sued him and Trump sued the distributor for unpaid royalties. You will be doubly shocked that the Russians initially committed to purchasing 50,000 cases a year.
Oy! Almost as shocked as when I stuck my finger in a lamp socket when I didn't believe the bulb was bad. Now I'll believe anything. I know his champagne makes a mean mimosa. His Orangeness dips his finger and then adds the Grand Marnier. MAGA...[Make America Grape Again]
Because the success of Family Planning 2020, total fertility rates declined faster than expected in the most recent years. It seems that these 16 countries currently remain the last ones with very high fertility levels: 1 Niger 5.9 2 Mali 5.5 3 Somalia 5.5 4 Burundi 5.3 5 South Sudan 4.9 6 Uganda 4.9 7 Angola 4.8 8 Burkina Faso 4.7 9 Nigeria 4.7 10 Zambia 4.7 11 Guinea 4.5 12 Malawi 4.1 13 Benin 4.4 14 Liberia 4.2 15 Mozambique 4.2 16 Timor-Leste 4.2
One of the problems with a high fertility rate is that the infant mortality rate is also high. Of course, there is no social safety net, so if you don't have children, there is no one to take care of you in your old age. The thinking is that the only way to make sure you have at least one child who grows up to be a productive adult is to have a lot of children. One of the worst elements of the HIV crisis in Africa is that it struck down adults in the prime of life, the main earners and supporters of the family. All that was left were the elderly and young children.
You're absolutely right ToMhIlL. These are the most current figures I could find, the last 15 countries with an estimated TFR of at least 4 in 2020 will all be from Sub-Saharan Africa: 1 Niger 5.9 2 Mali 5.5 3 Somalia 5.5 4 Burundi 5.3 5 South Sudan 4.9 6 Uganda 4.9 7 Angola 4.8 8 Nigeria 4.7 9 Zambia 4.7 10 Burkina Faso 4.5 11 Guinea 4.5 12 Benin 4.4 13 Liberia 4.2 14 Mozambique 4.2 15 Malawi 4.1 I think that soon all countries will have a TFR between 3.5 and 1.5, which is great progress. Even Niger seems to be making improvements: https://www.familyplanning2020.org/niger. Extremely high or extremely low fertility rates can and will make a country a huge mess. Every country needs a balanced fertility rate to develop or maintain its wealth.
Meh, no need, we can get to 12 billion and then follow Japan's lead back down to 3 billion. It may make this rock a better place.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com...pulation-11billion-demographics-anthropocene/ This is an interesting article called "As World’s Population Booms, Will Its Resources Be Enough for Us?"
Bill Gates warns of 'turning point' for Africa as population booms: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-...-warns-turning-point-africa-population-booms/ Let's hope the TFR decline in Africa will continue in the speed which is needed.
And closer to home. Texas is going through a cultural change with the influx ratio of newcomers. Get them on the voters lists. The Texas Tribune › 2019/06/20 › t... Web results Texas' Hispanic population is on pace to surpass white residents ... 1 day ago · Texas gained almost nine Hispanic residents for every additional white resident last year.
Overpopulation is a major cause of most of the world’s problems. Whether it is a question of food shortage, lack of drinking water or energy shortages, every country in the world is affected by it – or will be. Partly thanks to the import of goods from abroad, any particular country is able to maintain its own welfare. But this cannot go on in an unlimited way. The world population is threatening to rise in the next few decades to 8 or 10 billion. There is a good chance that more and more countries will need their own products themselves. Our planet can offer a quality of life comparable to that enjoyed in the European Union to no more than 3 billion people. With a population of 8 to 10 billion, welfare per person on a world scale will drop to that of a poor farmer who can scarcely provide sufficient food for himself and knows nothing of welfare. And thus we will have to share everything fairly in order to avoid disputes or war. The climate is changing – and it matters little whether this can be blamed on human activity or on changes in the solar system. The sea level only has to rise slightly in order to cause a great deal of valuable agricultural land to disappear. At present we seem to think that we can keep ahead of famine with the use of artificial fertilisers, by the inhumane breeding of animals and other survival strategies. Human beings have a tendency to want more and more welfare. World-wide the numbers of cars and refrigerators are increasing before our very eyes. But there will come a time when population growth and welfare collide. There is a reasonably good chance that floods of people will trek all over the world searching for more food and welfare. Technicians are only too happy to point to technology that has solutions to all our problems up its sleeve. Unfortunately technical solutions have not as yet been able to combat world hunger in any significant way. Wherever there is no recognition or solving of the problems on a worldwide scale, war and violence would seem to be inevitable: everyone wants to survive. The only solution is a population policy applied on a worldwide scale. This site provides you – per language and, where possible, per country – with articles, films and images from all over the world showing what overpopulation is and why a population policy is important. Unfortunately too often any discussion of overpopulation or of population policies is taboo. The business world and the religions are generally only interested in population growth. Allowing welfare to shrink is often just as difficult for the rich as fleeing from poverty is for the poor. In addition the growth scenario continues to dominate worldwide thinking about solutions for the problems set out here.
Fortunately, countries with high total fertility rates have falling rates. The countries with rates below replacement level, which is around 2.1, have stable rates. Country - Total fertility rate - Population above 10 million Niger 5.9 Yes Mali 5.5 Yes Somalia 5.5 Yes Burundi 5.3 Yes South Sudan 4.9 Yes Uganda 4.9 Yes Angola 4.8 Yes Nigeria 4.7 Yes Zambia 4.6 Yes Burkina Faso 4.5 Yes Guinea 4.5 Yes Benin 4.4 Yes Liberia 4.1 No Malawi 4.1 Yes Mozambique 4.1 Yes Afghanistan 3.9 Yes DR Congo 3.9 Yes Senegal 3.9 Yes Sierra Leone 3.9 No Timor-Leste 3.9 No Chad 3.8 Yes Equatorial Guinea 3.8 No Eritrea 3.8 No Guinea-Bissau 3.8 No São Tomé and Príncipe 3.8 No Madagascar 3.7 Yes Togo 3.7 No Mauritania 3.6 No Central African Republic 3.5 No Rwanda 3.5 Yes Sudan 3.5 Yes Cameroon 3.4 Yes Zimbabwe 3.4 Yes Comoros 3.2 No Congo 3.2 No Ethiopia 3.2 Yes The Gambia 3.2 No Yemen 3.2 Yes Côte d’Ivoire 3.1 Yes Jordan 3.1 No Tanzania 3.0 Yes Iraq 2.9 Yes Marshall Islands 2.9 No Solomon Islands 2.9 No Tonga 2.9 No Tuvalu 2.9 No Vanuatu 2.9 No Papua New Guinea 2.8 No Gabon 2.7 No Ghana 2.7 Yes Nauru 2.7 No Philippines 2.7 Yes Egypt 2.6 Yes Samoa 2.6 No Belize 2.5 No Eswatini 2.5 No Guatemala 2.5 Yes Honduras 2.5 No Kyrgyz Republic 2.5 No Lao PDR 2.5 No Lesotho 2.5 No Oman 2.5 No Tajikistan 2.5 No Bolivia 2.4 No Haiti 2.4 Yes Israel 2.4 No Pakistan 2.4 Yes Cambodia 2.3 Yes Fiji 2.3 No Kenya 2.3 Yes Kiribati 2.3 No Micronesia 2.3 No Syria 2.3 Yes Botswana 2.2 No Djibouti 2.2 No Dominican Republic 2.2 Yes Kuwait 2.2 No Panama 2.2 No Venezuela 2.2 Yes Argentina 2.1 Yes Bhutan 2.1 No Cabo Verde 2.1 No Ecuador 2.1 Yes India 2.1 Yes Kazakhstan 2.1 Yes Mexico 2.1 Yes Myanmar 2.1 Yes South Africa 2.1 Yes St. Vincent and the Grenadines 2.1 No Turkey 2.1 Yes Bangladesh 2.0 Yes Brazil 2.0 Yes Dominica 2.0 No France 2.0 Yes Grenada 2.0 No Indonesia 2.0 Yes Libya 2.0 No Malaysia 2.0 Yes Mongolia 2.0 No Morocco 2.0 Yes Nepal 2.0 Yes New Zealand 2.0 No Palau 2.0 No Peru 2.0 Yes Saudi Arabia 2.0 Yes Sri Lanka 2.0 Yes Turkmenistan 2.0 No United States 2.0 Yes Uruguay 2.0 No Antigua and Barbuda 1.9 No Colombia 1.9 Yes DPR Korea 1.9 Yes Guyana 1.9 No Iceland 1.9 No Ireland 1.9 No Jamaica 1.9 No Namibia 1.9 No Paraguay 1.9 No Suriname 1.9 No Sweden 1.9 Yes The Bahamas 1.9 No Tunisia 1.9 Yes Azerbaijan 1.8 Yes Costa Rica 1.8 No Denmark 1.8 No El Salvador 1.8 No Iran 1.8 Yes Nicaragua 1.8 No Norway 1.8 No Qatar 1.8 No Russia 1.8 Yes Seychelles 1.8 No St. Kitts and Nevis 1.8 No United Kingdom 1.8 Yes Algeria 1.7 Yes Australia 1.7 Yes Bahrain 1.7 No Belgium 1.7 Yes Brunei 1.7 No Chile 1.7 Yes Cuba 1.7 Yes Czech Republic 1.7 Yes Finland 1.7 No Georgia 1.7 No Latvia 1.7 No Lebanon 1.7 No Maldives 1.7 No Netherlands 1.7 Yes St. Lucia 1.7 No Trinidad and Tobago 1.7 No United Arab Emirates 1.7 No Uzbekistan 1.7 No Vietnam 1.7 Yes Armenia 1.6 No Barbados 1.6 No Bulgaria 1.6 No Canada 1.6 Yes Estonia 1.6 No Germany 1.6 Yes Liechtenstein 1.6 No Lithuania 1.6 No Luxembourg 1.6 No Montenegro 1.6 No Romania 1.6 Yes Slovenia 1.6 No Albania 1.5 No Austria 1.5 No China 1.5 Yes Moldova 1.5 No Monaco 1.5 No North Macedonia 1.5 No San Marino 1.5 No Serbia 1.5 No Spain 1.5 Yes Switzerland 1.5 No Thailand 1.5 Yes Ukraine 1.5 Yes Andorra 1.4 No Belarus 1.4 No Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.4 No Croatia 1.4 No Cyprus 1.4 No Greece 1.4 Yes Hungary 1.4 No Italy 1.4 Yes Japan 1.4 Yes Malta 1.4 No Mauritius 1.4 No Poland 1.4 Yes Portugal 1.4 Yes Slovak Republic 1.4 No Korea 1.2 Yes Singapore 1.2 No
Do a search of the first two paragraphs and that will give you the answer. Not going to promote the link.
Yeah I already found it. Funny that the only concrete policy suggestions I could find on that page are: "Stop immigration." and "Stop foreign aid unless countries implement population growth restriction policies." Of course without outlining any of those policies. Unless you count "Telling people that overpopulation is bad." as a policy...
Didn't even get that far...and stopping foreign aid is a rather Draconian response to overpopulation.
Over-population is nothing but a myth. It is usualy sensationalized and made into a issue by the racist, capitalist, and elitist stance fostered by Western society who face demographic decline. The main issue is inequality. 1% of the world’s population controls over half of the world’s wealth. And most of the wealth in the world is largely based in Western/westernized nations. which is conveniently ignored.
Also, the claims of overpopulation in African and Asian countries seem to reveal the glaring hypocrisies. In the quest to preserve the excessive global resource explotation of poor countries, over-consumerism and hedonism of the West, marginalized poor people abroad are told to breed less, while people domestically are told to breed more to preserve national identities and maintain a decent population size. China’s one child policy, which gave a huge gender gap, should serve as a example of why such western myth must be abandoned. It is foolish to presume that having fewer children is the key to abject poverty. Our self-indulgence has a cost, and that cost will be paid when God asks us about what we did with the comfort and prosperity He blessed us with.
Actually, Western comfort and prosperity is neither the result of the alleged work ethic nor is it a gift from God.
Overpopulation was a big problem in China and India. That's why China forced people to get no more than one child, and that's why India forced sterilization on men because its population size limits were reached. It's a brutal way of population control, which can be prevented if a nation's birth rate is around 2 with affordable contraception and good family planning out of free will. And indeed, underpopulation can also be a problem. Singapore for example has a total fertility rate around 1, which means there will be too much elderly people dependent on the workers. A total fertility rate above 2.5 is also problematic, because it will result in more mass poverty, environmental problems, unemployment, terrorism and so on. If a too large part of the population is a child, there won't be enough funds for decent education systems, which are crucial to develop into a developed nation. Africa's birth rate is keeping the continent poor. If we want to take the next step in development, we need birth rates in Africa which are comparable with the highest developed countries in the world. A TFR between 1.5 and 2.5 is healthy, higher or lower is problematic on the long-term. If we want to get rid of mass poverty, it's crucial to get a total fertility rate around 2. You can see it in the list, the countries with the highest TFR are the poorest and the countries with the lowest TFR are among the richest in the world. Niger is the country with the highest TFR, they're also the poorest country in the world. That's no coincidence. Africa's high birth rate is keeping the continent poor: https://www.economist.com/middle-ea...high-birth-rate-is-keeping-the-continent-poor
High birthrates are as much a consequence of poverty than a cause of poverty. It also circles back around to the status of women. The Middle East which has extreme wealth still has some of the worlds highest birthrates. If I remember correctly Jordan has lower birthrates than Saudi Arabia this being and indication that woman's status is more important than wealth.
Saudi Arabia has a total fertility rate of 2.0 currently, which means a declining population without immigration.