What to Expect When No One's Expecting : America's Coming Demographic Disaster

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Last, Jonathan V.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population forecasting--United States.

Population forecasting.

Age distribution (Demography)--United States.

Age distribution (Demography).

United States--Population.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Other Title:

What to Expect When No One''s Expecting

What to Expect When No One's Expecting

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Look around you and think for a minute: Is America too crowded?For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation: people jostling for space on a planet that's busting at the seams and running out of oil and food and land and everything else.It's all bunk. The "population bomb" never exploded. Instead, statistics from around the world make clear that since the 1970s, we've been facing exactly the opposite problem: people are having too few babies. Population growth has been slowing for two generations. The world's population will peak, and then begin

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction: One Child for All!; Chapter One: America's Falling Fertility; Chapter Two: The Roots of One-Child; Chapter Three: SEX! (and maybe marriage); Chapter Four: What You Can, and Cannot, Measure; Chapter Five: Very Bad Things; Chapter Six: The Bright Side; Chapter Seven: Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy; Chapter Eight: Losing Battles (What Not to Do); Chapter Nine: How to Make Babies; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781594037344

1594037345