One point that occurs to me re population and ‘steady state’. The population transition in Europe and elsewhere is strong associated with increased opportunity for each child.
Pre-transition, someone with more children is “richer”. Under a fixed-income (per capital) situation, an extended family with more people in it is richer.
Transition occurs in large part when increased investment per capita in fewer children is a better strategy for families.
Of course this is a narrow perspective but the underlying dynamics are realistic. A steady state economy is likley to reverse the demographic transition and create a worse population crisis.
Stan Glib
3 years ago
A penetrating article by Gray which dissects some of ‘agency’ problems of progressive environmentalists, while fully acknowledging the bleak reality. A peculiar lack of comments here – is this because Unherd had a smaller readership back then? Or is it simply too clear-eyed to bear?
Interesting. Thankyou.
One point that occurs to me re population and ‘steady state’. The population transition in Europe and elsewhere is strong associated with increased opportunity for each child.
Pre-transition, someone with more children is “richer”. Under a fixed-income (per capital) situation, an extended family with more people in it is richer.
Transition occurs in large part when increased investment per capita in fewer children is a better strategy for families.
Of course this is a narrow perspective but the underlying dynamics are realistic. A steady state economy is likley to reverse the demographic transition and create a worse population crisis.
A penetrating article by Gray which dissects some of ‘agency’ problems of progressive environmentalists, while fully acknowledging the bleak reality. A peculiar lack of comments here – is this because Unherd had a smaller readership back then? Or is it simply too clear-eyed to bear?