"China Needs to Grow Rich Before it Grows Old" - Robin Niblett
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Robin Niblett, Director of Chatham House, predicts a rapid demographic change in the world population by 2050. Although he sees many countries with aging populations, he is most alarmed about the graying of China. "China is the first country that needs to grow rich before it grows old," he says.
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With a new administration in the US government, and a global financial crisis, where do we stand now? Robin Niblett is director of the UK's prestigious Chatham House, arguably the world's foremost international affairs think tank.
Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) is concerned with global security, prosperity, and is a source of independent analysis and ideas for decision makers in government and the private sector. Professor Stephen King and The Age's Daniel Flitton respond to Robin Niblett's speech and The Hon Michael MacKellar chair's the discussion. - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Robin Niblett is the Director of Chatham House, President of The Center for Strategic and International Studies, former director of the CSIS Atlantic Partnership Project, and co-editor of Rethinking European Order: West European Responses, 1989-97.
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nothing. if they are not rich then they are not rich. Grow rich then experience a massive contraction because of aging population is worse and more painful then not getting rich.
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You could give people some kind of vaccine, a mandatory mass vaccination with some stuff in it that makes people sterile :)
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Great points. This video makes apparent the wonderful implementation of statistics in controlling our future, and making informed decisions now.
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Depopulation is a considerable danger. Not as great as war, ecological collapse, or some sort of disaster event, but it could create significant trouble at some point in the future.
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Overpopulation is a greater problem than depopulation. Population growth cannot continue forever - at some point as the population grows something's got to give. The sooner a population stabilizes, the better. If we don't stabilize it, as China is trying to do, the environment will do it for us via famine.
cristop5 2 years ago 8
What happens if they DON'T grow rich?
ncfwhitetigress 2 years ago 3