Opinion | Migration Is Remaking Our World, and We Don’t Understand It at All - The New York Times
This will be by far the largest migration of human beings to have ever taken place on the planet and will very likely never be equaled in the future. The resulting challenges to the availability of energy and resources and the enormous stress on the social fabric across the globe are mind-boggling . . . and the timescales to address them are very s
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There are still a few regions with very high fertility rates—notably in sub-Saharan Africa—and as a result, living standards are not yet rising at the rates needed to end poverty in those places. The expectation is that with more urbanization and longer years of schooling, especially for girls, fertility rates will decline in those places as well.
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
