Major demographic shocks of the 21st century

Current demographic dynamics suggest radical changes around the world. Fertility will fall everywhere, but the main problems are not related to this, but to uneven population growth in different countries. Scientists predict a huge increase in the proportion of Africans by 2100 and a marked depopulation of Europe and North America. Population from overpopulated and poor countries will go to places where life is better. Therefore, the influence of Western civilisation will inevitably weaken, says Alexander Markov, Doctor of Biological Sciences. And what would happen if people could not control the birth rate? Or, on the contrary, completely controlled childbearing? Alexander Markov and Olga Orlova discuss this in the 13th episode of the CounterEvolution podcast .

CounterEvolution is a podcast about alternative scenarios of human development. It seems that something has gone wrong with mankind. We know a lot, we know how to do a lot, but we continue to exterminate each other and do not understand the most basic things about each other. Two presenters: biologist Alexander Markov and scientific journalist and editor-in-chief of T-invariant Olga Orlova decided to discuss how modern humans acquired certain properties and what they would be like today if they had developed differently or lost some of their original abilities.

The topic of the thirteenth episode is demography.

The first episodeis about cold, the second episode isabout heat, the third is aboutthe sense of smell, the fourth isabout war, the fifth is about youth and aging, the sixth is about innate conscience, the seventh is about reproduction, the eighth is about mutations, the ninth is about genetic inheritance of socially significant traits, the tenth is about the pros and cons of monogamy, and the eleventh is about depression. And the twelfth is about religions.