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March 28, 2023 | Post

We submitted the following letter to The Guardian on March 28, 2023, and are sharing it below since it wasn’t published. We encourage all our members and supporters to make their voices heard! See our media guide for advice on how to do that. You can see common population myths…...

February 22, 2023 | Post

Population models generally don’t extend beyond 2100 because high uncertainty makes it very difficult to project demographic trends far into the future. An interesting recent study, however, uses sophisticated models to provide a rough idea of what our far-future population might look like. Extending the UN’s probabilistic population models, the…...

January 20, 2023 | Post

The country with the largest population for the past 300 years, now home to 1.4 billion people, has officially begun shrinking, according to new demographic data. Many media outlets are painting this development as a potential disaster — it isn’t. Rather, it represents a necessary transition to a more sustainable…...

January 17, 2023 | Post

We submitted the following letter to the editor at TIME magazine on January 17, 2023, and are sharing it below since it wasn’t published. We encourage all our members and supporters to make their voices heard! See our media guide for advice on how to do that. You can see…...

January 17, 2023 | Post

We submitted the following letter to The New York Times editor on January 17, 2023, and are sharing it below since it wasn't published. We encourage all our members and supporters to make their voices heard! See our media guide for advice on how to do that. You can see…...

January 6, 2023 | Post

We submitted the following letter to the editor on January 6, 2023, and are sharing it below since it wasn’t published by New York Magazine. We encourage all our members and supporters who come across misleading or problematic media stories to make their voices heard! See our media guide for…...

September 20, 2022 | Post

Your work on electric cars and commitment to renewable energy are commendable, but you are deeply wrong about population. You’ve repeatedly expressed concern that our global population will “collapse” due to declining birth rates, stating that this represents the “biggest threat” to civilization, exceeding even the threat of climate change.…...

September 2, 2022 | Post

Niall Ferguson's op-ed “China’s Demographics Spell Decline Not Domination,” published in Bloomberg on August 14 and reprinted in The Washington Post is a typical example of the incredibly narrow-minded and unhealthy view espoused by mainstream economists and growth-obsessed capitalists that declining birth rates are a disaster. We sent a letter…...

March 23, 2022 | Post

The year of the water tiger is looking like it could be the one to see China’s population peak. Projections by various agencies and organizations differ somewhat, but they all agree that the end of China’s reign as the world’s most populous country is near. Within the next few years,…...

March 10, 2022 | Post

“During 2020, the world’s population increased by 81 million people, adding to the demand for food, housing, infrastructure, services and decent work, and increasing the pressure on the environment.” That’s a sentence from page 22 of a new report[1] from the United Nations Population Division. The authors of Global Population…...