Worried about overpopulation? Excessive immigration? In today's episode, demographer Simon Kuestenmacher reveals the data on why we should be more concerned about the opposite: the coming global-population collapse.
Simon:
• Is Co-Founder and Director of The Demographics Group, a firm that provides advice on demographic data to businesses and governments.
• Writes a regular column on demographics for The Australian, the antipodean country’s most widely-read newspaper.
• He holds a Master’s in Urban Geography from the University of Melbourne.
Today’s episode should be of great interest to anyone! In it, Simon details:
• Why demography is the closest thing we have to a crystal ball.
• Why the world is at a greater risk of underpopulation than overpopulation by humans this century.
• How, in less than a decade, developed nations that depend on migrants to prevent their populations from declining will run out of immigrants.
• How A.I. and automation may solve both the coming low-migration crisis and the later global underpopulation crisis.
• The implications of vastly life-extending healthcare breakthroughs.
• What you can do in your career to prepare for the coming demographic and technological shifts.
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