Such a good event. After hearing it, I went straight to the Demography archives to read Arland Thornton's piece cautioning us against "reading history sideways". This remains as relevant today as when it was written. 👉 https://t.co/r5hhTK8m9N
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RT @RebeccaSear: As Arland Thornton cautions us, we need to be careful not to 'read history sideways' & assume that countries which still h…
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@RebeccaSear As you're making closely related points, I wonder what the global community (UN, governments, NGOs, local leaders and citizens of SA countries) do to prevent the looming overpopulation, growing count of folks in poverty and perpetuation of low
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As Arland Thornton cautions us, we need to be careful not to 'read history sideways' & assume that countries which still have higher fertility & mortality are simply at earlier stages of the demographic transition that Western Europe experienced 11