A book predicts the end of humanity from 2050

By 2050, the world's population will begin to decline are gradually disappearing, this is the conclusion reached by Canadian journalist John Ibbitson and political researcher Darrell Bricker in his latest book, Empty planet, put on sale on February 5, 2019.

There are currently 7.7 billion inhabitants on the planet and this figure is expected to reach 9,000 million by 2050. However, the authors of this book say that the opposite is true and that the crisis will come from depopulation.

Throughout history, The mbadive loss of inhabitants is the product of a disaster: you were ice, pests, the collapse of civilizations. This time, however, it is deliberatebecause people decide to have fewer children than what is needed to replace people dying, as Ibbitson and Bricker say.

According to them, We are already seeing this decline in the number of families in much of the world as a result of urbanization., the empowerment of women and the reduction of religiosity.

In Empty planetit is possible to know the social realities of dozens of countries as far apart as South Korea, Brazil or Belgium. The stories that are reflected in the book illustrate the consequences of this dwindling populationand explains why people do not have families.

The decline of the world's population would bring a series of benefits: fewer workers would imply higher wages; good jobs would stimulate innovation; the environment would improve; the risk of famine would decrease; and falling birth rates in developing countries would lead to greater wealth and greater autonomy for women.

However, this would also create an imbalance in the world. According to the authors, the effects of this phenomenon are already being felt in Europe and parts of Asia, where the aging of the population and the shortage of labor have weakened the economy and imposed paralyzing demands on the economy. medical care and social security.

The book offers a vision of a future that will not result in a lack of prevention, but a choice that people decide whether or not to make. "In about three decades, the world's population will begin to decline," and "Once the decline begins, it will never end," the text concludes.