This book is a broad collection of short and concise chapters addressing important issues relating to population levels, trends, and differentials. In addition to traditional population concerns, such as growth, composition, fertility, mortality, and migration, the articles address a broad range of related issues, including climate change, environmental degradation, socio-economic development, and policy development. The articles are concise, focused on specific issues, and presented in a style that avoids technical jargon and is easily understood by a broad range of readers. The articles are not only aimed at conveying population information, but also providing important messages for informed policy formulation and program implementation. Among the many issues addressed are human rights, laws, women, gender, climate change, COVID-19 pandemic, ageing, retirement, and abortion. Written in an accessible way, the book will appeal to many general readers wishing to know more about population issues.
Author(s): Joseph Chamie
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 316
City: Cham
Foreword
Preface
Contents
List of Chart
List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Author
Part I: Age Structure
Chapter 1: 2024: The Historic Reversal of America’s Population
Chapter 2: America’s Retirement Riddle
Chapter 3: America’s Age Tipping Point Is Approaching: We’re Totally Unprepared
Chapter 4: As America Ages, a Demographic Crisis Looms
Chapter 5: Caring for the Old
Chapter 6: Population Ageing: An Inescapable Future
Chapter 7: Quitting Work in Retirement? Fuhgeddaboudit!
Chapter 8: Raise Retirement Ages
Part II: Climate Change
Chapter 9: America’s Climate Change Conclusion
Chapter 10: Climate Change Conclusion: Time for Bold Action
Chapter 11: Climate Change Crisis Nonacceptance
Chapter 12: Climate Change Requires Population Stabilization for America
Chapter 13: Climate Change with 8 Billion Humans
Chapter 14: Earth Day to Earth Disaster
Chapter 15: Hamburgers and Climate Change
Chapter 16: The Climate Change Shuffle: Deny, Delay, and Do Nothing
Chapter 17: Too Hot for Climate Change: Limiting Population Growth
Part III: Development
Chapter 18: Androids in Human Populations
Chapter 19: As Foes and Allies Rise, America’s Downward Spiral Accelerates
Chapter 20: Billionaires ‘Kvetching’ About Population Collapse
Chapter 21: Debunking Demographic Denialism
Chapter 22: Food and People
Chapter 23: Planet Earth into Planet Plastics
Chapter 24: Who’s not Voting in America
Chapter 25: Why Aren’t More Women Angry?
Part IV: Fertility
Chapter 26: Abortion and the Supreme Court: An American Tragedy
Chapter 27: Abortion Decision Felt Worldwide
Chapter 28: America’s Views on Abortion Remain Steady: Its Laws Are a Different Story
Chapter 29: Don’t Blame American Women for Fewer Births
Chapter 30: Future Fertility Fantasies
Chapter 31: The Challenges of High Fertility, Rapidly Growing Populations
Part V: Growth
Chapter 32: After Years of US Population Growth, It’s Time for a Pause
Chapter 33: America’s Majority: Minority Confusion
Chapter 34: America’s Population Growth Future
Chapter 35: For America’s Future Population, How Much Is Too Much?
Chapter 36: Is the US Population in Decline? More Ponzi Demography
Chapter 37: No, Henny Penny, America’s Demographic Sky Is Not Falling
Chapter 38: Population Growth Diversity Continuing in the Twenty-first Century
Chapter 39: Population Stabilization, Not Growth, Is the Key to America’s Future
Chapter 40: Slower Population Growth: The Goods and the Bads
Part VI: Households
Chapter 41: A Possible Childcare Solution
Chapter 42: America’s Single Parent Families
Chapter 43: Breakdown of Poverty in America Is a Mirror to the nation’s Reality
Chapter 44: Dating in a Changing America
Chapter 45: Living Alone in America
Chapter 46: The End of Marriage in America
Chapter 47: Why Aren’t More American Women and Men in the Labor Force?
Part VII: International Migration
Chapter 48: America’s Immigration Policy Reform: Polemics, Idealism and Slogans
Chapter 49: America’s Open Border Policy
Chapter 50: An Open Borders World
Chapter 51: For the Foreseeable Future, Immigration Will Fuel U.S. Population Growth
Chapter 52: How Many More Immigrants and Who Should They Be?
Chapter 53: Migration Pawns: Unaccompanied Children
Chapter 54: US Population Stability Requires Immigration – Just How Much
Part VIII: Irregular Migration
Chapter 55: America’s Unauthorized Immigrants Have Been Left Out of the Conversation
Chapter 56: Illegal Immigration Dilemma
Chapter 57: Illegal Immigration: A Twenty-First Century Crisis
Chapter 58: Smuggler Services for Illegal Immigration
Chapter 59: What Should Be the Consequences for Illegal Immigration?
Chapter 60: Why the Surprise Over Illegal Immigration That’s Only Posed to Grow?
Part IX: Mortality
Chapter 61: America’s Pandemic of the Unvaccinated
Introduction
Unvaccinated
Politicized
Conclusions
Chapter 62: America’ Unhealthy Lifestyles
Chapter 63: Demographic Impact of Coronavirus Pandemic: An Overview
Chapter 64: Don’t Refuse a COVID-19 Vaccine
Chapter 65: One Thing Americans Can’t Deny: The Nation’s Low Life Expectancy
Chapter 66: The Dying Children Divide
Chapter 67: The Lives and Deaths of Infants: America’s Discouraging Disadvantage
Part X: Policies
Chapter 68: America’s Experiencing a Binary Sex Transformation
Chapter 69: America’s Taxes – Complex, Incomprehensible and Unfair
Chapter 70: Growing Disconnects Between Citizens and Legislators Endanger US Democracy
Chapter 71: It’s Time for a Discussion About Life After Being Born in America
Chapter 72: The ‘Great Replacement’ Theory Rejects History and Reality
Chapter 73: The Most Likely to Be in the Jailhouse Now
Chapter 74: The Republicans’ Opposition to Elder Support Is Decades in the Making
Chapter 75: U.S. Political Divides on Demographic Issues
Part XI: Refugees
Chapter 76: America’s Refugee and Asylum Debate
Chapter 77: Attention America: There’s an Asylum Iceberg Dead Ahead
Chapter 78: Rejecting Refugee Realities: Somebody Else’s Problem
Chapter 79: Right to Asylum: Bye-Bye
Chapter 80: Twilight for the 1951 Refugee Convention
