Hannah Moore
speaker
384 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2014
last heard May 2015
Hannah Moore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The evidence of the last 40 years shows that the human race is very adept at producing food to meet a rapidly growing demand.
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Here's Joseph Schmidt-Huber again.
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That's right.
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Paul Ehrlich, the American author of the book The Population Bomb, predicted in 1968 that in the 1970s hundreds of millions of people would starve to death because of the world's fast-growing population.
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He imagined 4 billion people would die, including 65 million Americans.
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But it didn't work out like that.
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Mine is the TFR, the total fertility rate of a population.
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This statistic allows us to make predictions about the social and economic behaviour of the population related to how long ago the TFR of the population fell from above 4 to a much lower number.
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This has now happened in almost all human populations.
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In the case of Britain, it was in the late 19th century.
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In the case of Iran, it was during the 1980s.
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China's decline began in the 1960s.
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Once their TFR falls, populations enjoy what is known as a demographic dividend.
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GDP per capita has to begin to rise because there are fewer unproductive children relative to productive adults.
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Also, women are more likely to be employed in salaried work than in caring for children.
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And there is so much more.
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I can go on and on about my enthusiasm for TFR.
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My favourite statistic?
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85% of statistics.
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Mine is the TFR, the total fertility rate of a population.
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