sent: thursday, august 14, 2025 at 06:38:03 p.m. edt
"after the spike - new book on global demographics"
"after the spike - Dean Spears and Michael Geruso
https://www.amazon.com/After-Spike-Population-Progress-People/dp/1668057336
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfxnfnH_how
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/29/after-the-spike-by-dean-spears-and-michael-geruso-review-the-truth-about-population
The two economists, demographers at univ. of texas in Austin, take a close look at what appears to be the inexorable worldwide trend toward below replacement fertility. Problem is their cheerleading and endless thought experiments lead them to conclude, 'more is better,' that would make Pollyanna look like a pessimist. Nonetheless, a book worth checking out from the library.
Enclosing the primary graphs and figures from the book.
If any of you have read it would be interesting to get your take.
6 comments:
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
I don't need a book to tell me that White people are on the endangered species list.
--GRA
No deal with Putin: So, does this mean that President Trump won't win the Nobel Peace Prize? LOL
Economist/demographers from AUSTIN, oooh! Where diversity is our strength. Could have saved themselves a lot of work by skipping the math and just printing photos from around the region. That way the book would be accessible to high-schoolers. Ickypedia quotes the long-ago 2020 census of Austin: 48.3% non-Hispanic White, 33.9% Hispanic or Latino, 7.8% African American, 7.6% Asian, 0.7% American Indian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, and 3.4% of two or more races.
Steyn, last month: Waving a Mexican flag in California doesn't mean you want to go back and live in Mexico: it's what conquering armies do. They don't need to move back to Mexico because they've brought Mexico to your parked car: Boyz in your hood. They've annexed one of the most famous jurisdictions on the planet - as, in the third century (this was in the remote pre-meme era), the barbarian hordes did. The Goths and Vandals didn't need to go back to their tribal lands in the east because they'd taken the Roman west with its more agreeable infrastructure and whatnot. .... To be sure, there are many Americans who reckon that the other half of "the free world" is facing an even more dismal future. But debating whether a violent gang-ridden Latin-American favela is marginally more convivial than just another backward cookie-cutter Krappistan is, per Dr Johnson, arguing the precedence of a louse and a flea.
Steyn, 2006: America Alone: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. It's yesterday's news, Austin.
Idiot Senator Josh Hawley, 2025: "We need to raise the Child Tax Credit to $5,000". Idiot MarjorieHitlerGreene, 2025: "We need to pass my home sales 0% capital gains tax bill so 30-year-olds will get married and buy houses."
Hillary is withdrawing the Trump nomination. Instead,it's going to her,but only because she wasn't elected President. The way biden effed up Ukraine--multiply by 1000-- to get how Hillary Clinton would have loused things up in the world(and Ukraine).
--GRA
SNOOP DOGG APPEARED AT SOARING EAGLE CASINO IN MT.PLEASANT--MINIMUM PRICE OF $116 UP TO $600
(MY LAUGH OF THE DAY)
GRA:It was advertised today on local tv,but I looked it up and the "concert" was August 10th with those ticket prices mentioned. I wonder if anyone showed up.
--GRA
Where is Austin, anyway?
Someone asked AI to "Draw a map of North America, highlighting countries, states, and capitals" and got this result, showing AUSTIN is the name of the state just west of Texas and the capital is Atlama with a dot above the rightmost part of the "m".
There is a city named Austin on the west coast in C. AL FORNA.
Hat tip to MindMatters.ai. Going to be quite a school year for you teachers out there who still assign homework and read what's handed in.
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