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Back to EpisodesJennifer Sciubba on How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World
Published 3 years, 11 months ago
Description
Northern Kentucky University political scientist Kimberly Weir talks with Jennifer Sciubba, political scientist at Rhodes College and author of the recently released 8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, & Migration Shape our World.
Topics Kimberly & Jennifer discuss include:
- Why people don’t think about demography when considering politics
- Global fertility, mortality, and migration patterns
- Why demographics isn't destiny
- How power transition theory explains Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine
- China’s aging and shrinking population challenges
- Why we don’t see ‘Gray Pride’ T-shirts, but should
- Why HALE matters more than life expectancy
- Demographic engineering as a political strategy
- Why the future is much more optimistic than the sensationalist ‘doom and gloom’ reports
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