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sottnet--2019-12-25--Periodic Exercise: India approves funds for census and population survey
| 2019-12-25T00:00:00 |
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Periodic Exercise: India approves funds for census and population survey
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India's federal cabinet approved funds on Tuesday for a census and population survey to be conducted in 2020, amid fears that the database could be used to build a controversial citizens register that has been opposed by hundreds of thousands of people who have taken to the streets.The government approved 87.54 billion rupees ($1.23 billion) for conducting the census and 39.41 billion rupees for updating the National Population Register (NPR).The census collects data on population, economy activity, social and cultural aspects, migration and demography, down to the lowest administrative level.The NPR is intended to create a comprehensive identity database of every resident of India, including demographic and biometric database.Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan
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Wed, 25 Dec 2019 03:33:37 +0000
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thedailycaller--2019-04-18--New Census Data Shows Puerto Rico Lost 4 Of Population After Hurricane Maria
| 2019-04-18T00:00:00 |
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New Census Data Shows Puerto Rico Lost 4% Of Population After Hurricane Maria
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New data released Thursday by the New Census Bureau shows that Puerto Rico lost nearly 4% of its population after Hurricane Maria. Between the period of July 2017 and July 2018, the U.S. territory’s population dropped by 129,848 people, marking the largest population drop in the island’s history, according to the Associated Press. Hurricane Maria hit the island in September 2017 and is estimated to have caused nearly 3,000 deaths. “It’s the largest population drop seen in a single year ever registered in Puerto Rico,” said demographer Raúl Figueroa.While deaths were a factor, the population loss was mostly attributed to people emigrating from the country. Metropolitan areas such as San Juan, which lost 81,087 people, and Ponce faced the heaviest drops in people. (RELATED: Critics Blame Trump For The Hurricane Maria Death Toll And Response But The Facts Tell A Different Story) Within the 12-month period, the census data show that there were 6,449 more deaths than births, which is considered a “normal figure” even with the thousands of deaths that immediately followed the hurricane. Many of the excess deaths brought on by the deadly storm were of sick and elderly people who died within the year in question, said Figueroa. Lack of electricity, services and fresh water after the hurricane may have lead to the concentrated number of deaths. Many Puerto Ricans left for Florida and New York, which have communities of people from the territory, in the aftermath of the Atlantic storm. Locals in San Juan notice the lack of people within the country’s capital. (RELATED: Debt-Ridden Puerto Rico Releases Its Long-Awaited Financial Statements) Sister Carmen Negrón, who sells handmade rosaries and icons in the Plaza del Mercado in the Rio Piedras area of San Juan, faces a decrease in sales from the loss of people. “This area’s been shrinking,” said Negrón. “Sales are down.” “You see fewer people around, fewer young people,” said local Wilfredo Montañez. Magaly Robles, who has been selling potatoes for 15 years in the plaza, stays in the city because of her job but has lost many friends because of the storm. “Lots of people have left since Maria,” said Robles. “Many of my friends have gone and not come back.”
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https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/18/puerto-rico-lost-4-of-population-after-maria/
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2019-04-18 20:47:15+00:00
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truepundit--2019-01-03--Texas Florida see big population gains while New York Illinois see big losses Census Bureau data
| 2019-01-03T00:00:00 |
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Texas, Florida see big population gains, while New York, Illinois see big losses, Census Bureau data show
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The exodus from two of the nation’s biggest Blue States continues, according to new numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau. Many Red States, meanwhile, continue to gain population, the figures show. The biggest population losers between July 2017 and July 2018 were the high-tax, Democrat-controlled states of New York and Illinois. In that one-year span, New York lost more than 48,000 residents, while Illinois’ population declined by more than 45,000, the figures show. “It’s taxes. It’s corruption. It’s politics,” Mary Miller, a former Illinois resident, told the Chicago Tribune, explaining why she moved to Florida. “And I don’t mean Republicans or Democrats. It’s all of them.” It was the fifth straight year the state has seen a decline, the newspaper reported.- READ MORE
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https://truepundit.com/texas-florida-see-big-population-gains-while-new-york-illinois-see-big-losses-census-bureau-data-show/
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2019-01-03 13:21:35+00:00
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usatoday--2019-04-18--Census Bureau Puerto Rico metro areas lost population 2017-18 Florida Texas metros gained
| 2019-04-18T00:00:00 |
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Census Bureau: Puerto Rico metro areas lost population 2017-18; Florida, Texas metros gained
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Metro areas in Texas and Florida were standouts in percentage gains in population from 2017 to 2018, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. The greatest percentage losses were in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, where all metro areas shrank, according to the bureau's estimates for population as of July 1, 2018. In actual residents added, the biggest winner was the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro, which increased by 131,767 residents, or 1.8% in the year. The greatest headcount loss was in the San Juan-Carolina-Caguas, Puerto Rico, metro – down 81,087 people or 3.9% in the one year. More: Trump administration plan for census citizenship question ruled against by third federal judge More: Census 2020 citizenship question: Feds, groups fought for months before courts nixed it Metro areas, by percentage, that lost the most population from 2017 to 2018:
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http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~/600965496/0/usatodaycomwashington-topstories~Census-Bureau-Puerto-Rico-metro-areas-lost-population-Florida-Texas-metros-gained/
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2019-04-18 21:59:49+00:00
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abcnews--2019-12-12--Detroit tops list of hard-to-count cities ahead of census
| 2019-12-12T00:00:00 |
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Detroit tops list of hard-to-count cities ahead of census
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DETROIT -- When the U.S. Census Bureau starts counting people next year in Detroit, obstacles are bound to arise: The city has tens of thousands of vacant houses, sparse internet access and high poverty — factors that will make it the toughest community to tally. Other Rust Belt towns that have lost population and cities in the Sun Belt with large numbers of immigrants and transplants will pose similar challenges in the coast-to-coast headcount, an Associated Press analysis of government data found. Nationwide, about a quarter of the population lives in hard-to-count neighborhoods, including a majority of people in Atlanta, Cleveland, Dallas, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Memphis, Tennessee, and Fresno, California. Obtaining an accurate count is critical because the census determines the allocation of $1.5 trillion in federal spending and decides which states gain or lose congressional seats. “There is nothing more important, no higher priority, than reaching the hard to count,” Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham told lawmakers last summer. Detroit's recent resurgence has led to refurbished downtown buildings, new boutique hotels and an invigorated arts community. But the renaissance has done little for some residents who live in persistent poverty and harbor lingering mistrust after decades of racial upheaval. The many empty homes are relics of the mass exodus that began in the 1950s and sent Detroit’s population plummeting from about 1.8 million to 670,000. About 86% of Detroit’s population lives in hard-to-count neighborhoods, by far the largest proportion of any major U.S. city, the AP analysis found. Annette Brock, who lives northeast of downtown, said some residents see no connection between answering questions from the government and improving their lives. “Everybody else outside of us gets help before we do,” Brock said. “I don’t blame nobody if they don’t want to participate, or if they don’t want to help, or if they don’t want to say nothing no more. They’re tired of speaking their mind.” About 70% of Detroit residents turned in their 2000 Census forms. That figure fell to 64% a decade later, when the national rate was 74 percent. In 2010, 220,000 Detroit residents were living in households that did not fill out questionnaires, costing the city $2,000 to $5,000 annually for every uncounted person, said Victoria Kovari, executive director of Detroit’s 2020 Census Campaign. To get those numbers back up, city census teams have knocked on nearly 130,000 doors in neighborhoods that were under-counted in the last census and spoken with more than 26,000 people. But Kovari is still concerned. For the first time, the Census Bureau would like respondents to answer questions online, but the agency estimates that 30% of Detroit households lack regular connection to the internet, roughly double the national percentage. The Census Bureau sends workers to homes that don't respond. In Detroit, that means knocking on the doors of vacant houses and others where residents may not answer. Almost 80 percent of Detroit is African American, and observers “know we are going to have an undercount among the black population,” said Diana Elliott, an Urban Institute researcher who co-wrote a report last summer that estimated anywhere from 900,000 to 4 million people could be missed. “That puts Detroit at greater risk just because of the demographics,” Elliott said. Researchers have learned that Latinos, African Americans, non-English-speaking immigrants and children under 5 are the hardest to count, along with tribal members, nontraditional families and people with informal living arrangements. Experts say the Trump administration’s effort to put a citizenship question on the questionnaire may scare off immigrants who live here illegally and others. Although the effort failed, opponents of the question say damage has already been done. California and New Mexico have some of the nation’s largest concentrations of Latinos. In those states, over 40 percent of the population lives in hard-to-count neighborhoods. By contrast, Vermont, Maine and West Virginia have some of the highest concentrations of white residents and older people, who are more likely to fill out census forms. There, less than 5% of the population lives in hard-to-count neighborhoods. To tout the importance of the 2020 census, California is spending an estimated $187 million on advertising and events and recruiting neighborhood leaders to encourage participation. California census officials have hired liaisons whose sole focus is 15 specific hard-to-count groups, including farm workers, the homeless and people without broadband subscriptions. “You really have to understand the structural barriers that exist,” said Ditas Katague, director of the California Complete Count-Census 2020 Office. Gathering accurate population data in Detroit can be daunting because of its size and the emptiness of some neighborhoods. The city was almost bursting its limits through the 1950s, until good-paying auto and other manufacturing jobs allowed a burgeoning white middle class to find bigger homes and better schools in the suburbs. Years of housing discrimination made it harder for the city’s black residents to leave. Tensions between Detroit’s black residents and its mostly white police department exploded in a riot in 1967, scarring the landscape and driving more white flight. The 1973 election of Coleman A. Young as the city’s first black mayor was a milestone in Detroit’s rise as a city dominated by African Americans. But soon many in the black middle class also sought better homes, schools and safety in the suburbs. In the late 2000s, the national housing crisis and economic downturn fell hardest on the Motor City. Foreclosures abounded. Three of every 10 adults was jobless and about 4 of every 10 people lived in poverty. Thousands more left the city, and the population dropped by 2010 to 713,000. In 2013, Detroit became the largest city in the U.S. to file for bankruptcy. When it emerged the following year, it was able to wipe out or restructure about $7 billion in debt, sparking a turnaround that helped fuel a massive demolition program. Since 2014, about 19,000 vacant houses have been razed, mostly with federal dollars. Still, current Postal Service estimates show nearly 60,000 vacant units in Detroit. Mayor Mike Duggan’s office has recruited volunteers and groups to go into neighborhoods to speak to friends and churches to explain why census participation is important and to dispel fears. “You just can’t walk and knock on somebody’s door, now,” said Charles Jones Jr., who also lives northeast of downtown. “You’ve got to find somebody in the neighborhood that the people trust. Not strangers. They’re scared of strangers.” Edith Floyd understands why being counted matters. Working in a community garden, the 70-year-old digs up dirt for composting and makes winter preparations for greens and other crops still in the ground. A cold, stiff breeze blows across scores of vacant lots, broken by the few homes that have withstood time and busy bulldozers leveling vacant structures. “We need all the money we can get for the city and for ourselves,” Floyd said. “There’s very few people over here, and everybody counts. Everybody needs to participate.” Follow Corey Williams on Twitter at http://twitter.com/coreywilliamsapreporter. Follow Mike Schneider on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MikeSchneiderAP.
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Thu, 12 Dec 2019 04:21:00 -0500
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prisonplanet--2019-01-14--Data White American Births Below Replacement Level in Every State
| 2019-01-14T00:00:00 |
prisonplanet
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Data: White American Births Below Replacement Level in Every State
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The United States birth rate remains well below the replacement level needed as white American births plummet in all 50 states and the District of Colombia. New federal data released by the Center for Disease Control reveals that American women are having less and less children needed to sustain the current population. In 2017, all but two states in the country had birth rates below replacement level. The total U.S. birth rate was about 1.765 children per woman. The U.S. needs a birth rate of at least 2.1 children per woman to replace the current population of the country without experiencing population decreases. States like California, New York, Wyoming, West Virginia, and Washington, DC, saw the lowest birth rates in the country. For example, Washington, DC, had a birth rate of only about 1.7, far below the 2.1 level needed to replace the metro area’s population. Meanwhile, only South Dakota and Utah had birth rates above replacement level. South Dakota had a birth rate of about 2.2 children per woman, while Utah had a birth rate of about 2.1 children per woman. This article was posted: Monday, January 14, 2019 at 7:19 am
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https://www.prisonplanet.com/data-white-american-births-below-replacement-level-in-every-state.html
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2019-01-14 12:19:19+00:00
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prisonplanet--2019-03-14--Fertility Falls in EU Not ONE Country Hits Population Replacement Level
| 2019-03-14T00:00:00 |
prisonplanet
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Fertility Falls in EU, Not ONE Country Hits Population Replacement Level
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Total births in the European Union’s 28 member states in 2017 has fallen from the year before, while first-time mothers are now almost 30. Figures released by Eurostat on Tuesday revealed that there were 5.075 million babies born in the union in 2017, compared with 5.148 million in 2016 with the total fertility rate standing at 1.59 births per woman — down from 1.60 on the year before and well below the 2.1 births per woman needed to maintain a population. In terms of individual countries, France had the highest fertility rate at 1.90 births per woman, followed by Sweden (1.78), Ireland (1.77), Denmark (1.75), and the United Kingdom (1.74). The lowest fertility rates were in Malta (1.26), Spain (1.31), Italy and Cyprus (both 1.32), Greece (1.35), Portugal (1.38), and Luxembourg (1.39). These figures reveal that not one of the 28 European Union countries came close to replacement level in 2017. This article was posted: Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 7:18 am
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admin
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https://www.prisonplanet.com/fertility-falls-in-eu-not-one-country-hits-population-replacement-level.html
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2019-03-14 12:18:58+00:00
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activistpost--2019-01-11--US Fertility Rates Dropping and How Cell Phone and WiFi Radiation Exposure Affect Baby Making Part
| 2019-01-11T00:00:00 |
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U.S. Fertility Rates Dropping and How Cell Phone and WiFi Radiation Exposure Affect Baby Making Parts
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US fertility rate is below level needed to replace population, study says The total fertility rate for the United States in 2017 continued to dip below what’s needed for the population to replace itself, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics. Previous research has shown that US birthrates appeared to hit a “record low” in 2017, when the number of births nationwide was at its lowest in three decades. Based on data from the released last year, about 3,853,472 babies were born nationally in 2017 — the lowest number of births in 30 years and down from a . The total fertility rate for the United States has been on the decline for a while, said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, who was not involved in the new report. A New York Times poll in July found that young adults are choosing not to have kids because it’s so expensive. According to the CDC, women are also choosing not to have children until they are older. Some have even wondered whether the decline might be influenced by sperm quality . Recent medical journal publications have indicated that exposure to pollutants might be harming reproductive health, including the motility and quantity of sperm, which could delay childbearing and overall fertility. The University of Pennsylvania’s Hans-Peter Kohler, who studies fertility and birthrates, said the data indicated that many shifts affecting fertility are occurring “in the transition to adulthood.” The biggest recent drops in birthrate have been among teenagers as well as people in their 20s. In 2016, the teen birthrate hit at an all-time low after peaking in 1991. Research has also determined that exposure to electromagnetic radiation from cell phones and other sources of wireless WiFi radiation can also affect sperm quality, cause impotence, reduce fertility and even lower libido. All of this technology may offer some benefits and conveniences but it doesn’t operate via magic. Reducing your exposure to digital, electronic, and wireless devices, wearables, and infrastructure is always better for your health even if you don’t want to be a parent or a sexual dynamo. For more information, visit the following websites:
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https://www.activistpost.com/2019/01/u-s-fertility-rates-dropping-and-how-cell-phone-and-wifi-radiation-exposure-affect-baby-making-parts.html
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2019-01-11 22:23:36+00:00
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cnsnews--2019-01-15--CDC US Fertility Rate Dropped in 2017 DC Had Lowest Rate in Nation
| 2019-01-15T00:00:00 |
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CDC: U.S. Fertility Rate Dropped in 2017; D.C. Had Lowest Rate in Nation
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A new report by the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics reveals that Americans’ fertility dropped in 2017 and that the Nation’s Capital had the lowest rate of fertility in the U.S. for that year. According to the CDC, the U.S. total fertility rate (TFR) fell to only 1,765.5 babies born per 1,000 women, a figure far below the number of births needed to replace the American population in the future. As the CDC researchers note, a TFR of 1,765.5 is “16% below what is considered the level for a population to replace itself (2,100.0).” In fact, only two U.S. states had fertility rates above the replacement level. South Dakota’s fertility rate was 2,227.5, and Utah’s was 2,120.5. Washington, D.C., by contrast, had a fertility rate of 1,421.0 – the lowest in the U.S. American women had approximately 3,855,500 babies in 2017. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the 2017 birth rate was at its “lowest number” in thirty years.. Total fertility rates varied considerably by race and ethnicity. Hispanic women were the most fertile, and non-Hispanic white women were the least. According to the CDC, “Among non-Hispanic white women, no states had a TFR above the replacement level (Utah was 2,099.5); among non-Hispanic black women, 12 states had TFRs above replacement; and among Hispanic women, 29 states had TFRs above 2,100.0.” The CDC defines total fertility rate as “the expected number of births that a group of 1,000 women would have in their lifetimes according to the current age-specific birth rates.” The TFR assumes that the current birthrates of women “will remain constant over their reproductive lifetime.” Therefore, as the CDC notes, “the TFR is an estimate of their possible completed fertility.” The researchers noted that the report is potentially limited, since “the number of births by maternal age and race and Hispanic origin, which serve as the basis for the age-specific birth rates, was small for some groups.”
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https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/emily-ward/cdc-us-fertility-rate-fell-lowest-level-three-decades-2017
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2019-01-15 18:44:36+00:00
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drudgereport--2019-01-10--Fertility rate for whites plummets below limit needed to maintain population
| 2019-01-10T00:00:00 |
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Fertility rate for whites plummets below limit needed to maintain population...
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Fertility rates for white women were down in every US state in 2017 - below the rate needed for the population to replace itself, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals. However, among black and Hispanic women, fertility rates were up in 12 and 29 states, respectively. When researchers looked at fertility rates for women of all age groups and races, they found that the nationwide rate was 16 percent lower than what is considered the level for a population to replace itself. Experts say this is likely due to the fact that the large proportion of native-born women are having fewer children than before, while the much smaller proportion of immigrant-born women are having more children. Additionally, the US white population has been hit hard by the Great Recession of 08-09, and is aging. The overall fertility rate was only above the level in two states: South Dakota (with a boom in jobs for white Americans in the energy industry) and Utah (home to a high concentration of Mormons). Demographers and public policy experts say if the rate continues to decline, there will not be enough healthy, young workers to keep the economy going and replace an aging population. Researchers looked at the birth certificates from all 50 states, including the District of Columbia and self-reported data on the mother's race from the certificate. The highest total fertility rate was found to be in South Dakota, which was 57 percent greater than the lowest rate in Washington, DC. No state in 2017 had a total fertility rate for white women that was above the population replacement level - what the population needs to exactly replace itself from one generation to the next. Meanwhile, black women had a rate higher than the population replacement level in 12 states and Hispanic women had a rate that was higher in 29 states. However across all age groups and races, the total fertility rate for the US in 2017 was 1,765.5 per 1,000 women - 16 percent below the level of a population to replace itself. There were only two states that had rates above the population level, South Dakota and Utah. For Utah, the answer as to why is easy: its Mormon population. 'It's certainly from Mormonism,' Dr Kenneth Johnson, a professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, told DailyMail.com 'The concentration for so many Mormons in a state is why the fertility tends to be higher.' Currently, nearly 63 percent of all Utahans identify as Mormon in comparison with two percent of the US population. According to a 2014 Pew Research Center survey, Mormons were found to have more children than other US religious groups. Mormons between ages 40 and 59 had an average of 3.4 children in their lifetime, compared to the national average of 2.1 among all Americans in that age range. It's also the reason why Utah had the highest total fertility rate for white women in 2017. As for South Dakota, Dr Johnson theorizes it's due to the state's economic growth. 'My guess is South Dakota has had so much growth in the energy industry, it may the influx of people to the state that affects fertility,' he said. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis has reported strong earning growths for the Mount Rushmore State and, in 2018, South Dakota had the third-highest growth rate in the nation behind Washington and Utah. In a bit of a surprising twist, Maine had the highest total fertility rate for black women in 2017. Historically, Maine has been named the state with the largest white population - which is why many residents have nicknamed it the Wonder Bread State. And, according to the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, Maine is expected to have in 2020 more residents aged 65 and older than resident aged 19 and younger. 'My guess is a lot of [the black women who've given birth to babies in Maine] are foreign born,' Dr Jonathan Resiman, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Maine at Machias, told DailyMail.com. 'There's a significant Somali group in southern Maine, along the northern coast there's a lot of Central Americans. Immigrants who are foreign born tend to have higher fertility rates.' Dr Philip Cohen, a professor of population at the Maryland Population Research Center, says the reason might also be that black populations are moving to places with majority white populations for economic prosperity. 'In places with with small black populations like Maine or Oregon, they may have had some positive reason for ending up there and are higher-educated and better off than black populations in inner cities,' he told DailyMail.com. Also surprising, Alabama had the highest total fertility rates for Hispanic women in 2017, which Dr Cohen says might be because of immigration. 'Places like Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina might be new immigration destinations with more recent immigrants and immigrants have higher fertility rates,' he said. Dr Johnson says the declining nationwide rates are an indicator that fertility rates haven't recovered since the Great Recession and wonders if they ever will. 'The question will be whether these numbers are temporarily low. Are these delayed or are they really going to be low forever and never going to return?' he said. But Dr Cohen says he doesn't want people to be alarmed by the report. 'It might make people fear society will stagnate, but we're a couple of generations away from that,' he said. 'And there are pathways out of it. The main way is through immigration. It may be difficult with culture and politics, but not with demography.' Dr Resiman agrees that immigrants are the key to replenishing population levels. 'We're not quite Japan yet,' he said, referencing the Asian's country struggling birth rates. 'But this definitely makes the case for why we need more immigrants.'
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2019-01-10 23:16:38+00:00
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drudgereport--2019-07-25--CDC Fertility rate all-time low
| 2019-07-25T00:00:00 |
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CDC: Fertility rate all-time low...
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(CNN) The general fertility rate in the United States continued to decline last year, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics . "The 2018 general fertility rate fell to another all-time low for the United States," the researchers wrote in the report, published Wednesday. The report found that the general fertility rate dropped 2% between 2017 and 2018 among girls and women age 15 to 44 nationwide. Now the center's latest report presents selected highlights from that 2018 birth data. For the report, researchers examined birth certificate data from the National Vital Statistics System's Natality Data File, taking a close look at births among white, black and Hispanic women in 2018. When examined by race, the data showed that fertility rates declined 2% for white and black women, and 3% for Hispanic women, between 2017 and 2018. The data also showed that the teen birth rate, for ages 15 to 19, fell 7% from 2017 to 2018. When examined by race, the data showed that teen births declined by 4% for black teenagers, and 8% for white and Hispanic teens. Also among all births, the percentage delivered at less than full term, or 39 weeks, increased -- with preterm births climbing from 9.93% of births in 2017 to 10.02% in 2018, and early-term births rising from 26% in 2017 to 26.53% in 2018. The percentages of births delivered at full-, late- and post-term declined, according to the data. Full-term births were down from 57.49% of births in 2017 to 57.24% in 2018, the data showed, and post-term births declined from 6.58% to 6.2%. "The continuing shift toward increased maternal age at first birth is something that does increase the risk. However, it does not fully explain the increase in the preterm birth rate. So that's one of the challenges here, I think, for the nation," he said. "There is a lot more work that needs to be done as the preterm birth rate continues to rise."
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2019-07-25 23:28:37+00:00
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hitandrun--2019-11-27--U.S. Total Fertility Rate Falls to Record Low
| 2019-11-27T00:00:00 |
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U.S. Total Fertility Rate Falls to Record Low
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The U.S. total fertility rate (TFR) has dropped to below 1.73 births per woman according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). This record low edges out the previous U.S. fertility nadir of 1.74 births per woman back in 1976. The NCHS notes that the TFR for the U.S. in 2018 remained below replacement, the level at which a given generation can exactly replace itself (usually defined as 2.1 births per woman). In addition, the TFR was below replacement for all race and Hispanic-origin groups in 2018, except for Pacific Islanders. Overall, the U.S. TFR has generally been below replacement since 1971. In general, American women of all races are having children later in life. In the 1960s, the mean age for a mother's first birth was 23.3 years. The new report notes that for all ethnic groups, the mean age of mothers at first birth has been rising and has now reached a national average of 26.9 years. U.S. fertility rates appear to be following the downward below-replacement trend seen in other developed countries. For example, the overall TFR for the 28 countries in the European Union is just under 1.6 births per woman; Japan's is at 1.4 births; Australia's is at 1.74 births, and Canada's is 1.5 births. Why are fertility rates falling around the world? In my book, The End of Doom, I reported on how the life prospects of women shape reproductive outcomes, as analyzed in a fascinating 2010 article in Human Nature, "Examining the Relationship Between Life Expectancy, Reproduction, and Educational Attainment." In that study, University of Connecticut anthropologists Nicola Bulled and Richard Sosis divvied up 193 countries into five groups by their average life expectancies. In countries where women could expect to live to between 40 and 50 years, they bear an average of 5.5 children, while those countries with female life expectancies between 51 and 61 average 4.8 children. The big drop in fertility occurs at that point. Bulled and Sosis found that when women's life expectancy rises to between 61 and 71 years, total fertility drops to 2.5 children; between 71 and 75 years, it's 2.2 children; and over 75 years, women average 1.7 children. As global average life expectancy rose from 52.6 years in 1960 to 72.4 years now, the global total fertility rate has fallen from 5 births per woman in 1960 to 2.4 births now. Average global life expectancy is projected to exceed 77 years by 2050. If Bulled and Sosis's insights continue to hold, global TFR should fall to around 1.7 births per woman by then. As noted in the NCHS report, U.S. TFR has been below replacement since 1971, which, as it happens, is exactly the year that average life expectancy for American women reached 75 years. Is falling fertility a bad thing? Obviously not for those still benighted folks worried about a supposedly exploding population bomb. However, earlier this month there was a lot of anxious handwringing about falling fertility rates in the New York Times opinion article, "The End of Babies." According to the op-ed's author, Anna Louie Sussman, the culprit responsible for falling fertility rates is "late capitalism." She doesn't mean "just the economic system, but all its attendant inequalities, indignities, opportunities, and absurdities—[have] become hostile to reproduction. Around the world, economic, social, and environmental conditions function as a diffuse, barely perceptible contraceptive." Sussman does acknowledge that declining fertility "reflects better educational and career opportunities for women, increasing acceptance of the choice to be child-free, and rising standards of living." Nevertheless, she blames employers and governments for failing to make parenting and work compatible. To her credit, Sussman begins by noting the vast array of pro-natalist policies mandated in Denmark including 12 months' paid family leave for new parents, highly subsidized daycare, and state-funded in vitro fertilization for women under 40 years of age. And yet Denmark's TFR is just 1.7 births per woman, almost exactly the same as that of the U.S. Modernity, a.k.a, late capitalism, clearly offers people a multitude of life options that compete with the bearing and rearing of children. Evidently the trade-offs between work, travel, socializing, entertainment, sports, and parenting that people are making reduce fertility. Attempts to skew trade-offs toward more childbearing may have some effect—Denmark's fertility rate rose from 1.4 in 1983 to 1.7 births per woman now—but in no developed country so far have pro-natalist policies sustained fertility above the replacement rate. We do know, however, what policies do sustain high fertility rates: Low incomes, low education levels, high levels of violence, defective rule of law, extensive corruption, lack of property rights, and despotic government. I doubt that even the most ardent pro-natalists would advocate a reversion to Malthusian hell-holes as a way to boost fertility. The upshot is that modern people considering their options are voluntarily choosing to have fewer children. Freedom of choice is a good thing.
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2019-11-27T20:35:18Z
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liveaction--2019-01-13--Fertility rate of US women plummets to lowest level in 30 years
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Fertility rate of U.S. women plummets to lowest level in 30 years
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The United States fertility rate has hit its lowest in three decades, according to a National Vital Statistics Report (NVSS) released Thursday from the CDC. The results show a significant variance between states’ fertility rates, but the numbers are troubling. The report notes that the total fertility rate (TFR) is “16% below what is considered the level for a population to replace itself…. For overall population, only two states, South Dakota and Utah, had TFRs above replacement level.” This means, of course, that if the current pace continues, the nation will continue to decline in population, theoretically, until there are no more young people to reproduce. Some of the states with the lowest fertility rates also appear to have the highest abortion rates, while some of the states with the lowest abortion rates have some of the highest fertility rates. According the CDC’s most recently available Abortion Surveillance Report from 2015, the pro-life state of South Dakota, which, along with Utah is only one of two states with a high enough fertility rate to sustain its population, had 444 abortions; it had a population of about 860,000 that year. By contrast, the District of Columbia, which had the lowest fertility rates currently reported, has a reputation for late-term abortions. Despite having a 2015 population of about 672,000, the CDC reported 1,267 abortions — three times the number in South Dakota, which has 200,000 more people. While the numbers vary from state to state, and abortion rates can’t be attributed to every instance of declining birth rate, abortion rates certainly can’t be ignored. Live Action News reported last September how abortion was contributing to declining birth rates in various nations of the world, including the United States, as well as Japan and China, pointing out: Sadly, the U.S. abortion rate even made the top ten in the world, as reported by the United Nations in 2013… With a fertility rate of only 1.6, China’s population will drop 28 percent by 2100, ceding the title of world’s most-populous nation to India, the UN predicts. With a fertility rate of 1.4, Japan’s population will plunge 34 percent by 2100. The U.S.’s headcount is expected to keep growing, despite a low fertility rate of 1.8, because of large numbers of immigrants, though government policies could change that. Other news reports share opinions from experts attributing the fertility decline to economic reasons. ABC News reports on Dr. Karen Guzzo, associate director of the Center for Family & Demographic Research at Bowling Green State University: “[W]e kind of expected that after the Great Recession has supposedly disappeared and we are doing much better, fertility rates would start to pick up…. They really haven’t recovered as much as we had expected, and I think that suggests a lot about how people feel in terms of their own personal lives and how secure they feel. It’s not just the global or national economic or GDP numbers, it’s, ‘Can I pay my bills, can I pay my student loans, can I buy a house, is my job secure? Do I have a strong relationship and can I maintain that?’ So people go through a lot of uncertainty,” she said. “I really think that those characteristics haven’t improved as much over the last 10 years, and that’s probably what’s going on here.” However, Guzzo’s words are similar in topic to the words abortion advocates use when they tell women they don’t need to have children until they are ready, that careers should come first, that money and financial security are the most important things. Women have been led to believe they must have it all — and in a certain order — for so long that it may be factoring into their decision to delay childbirth, whether by abortion or birth control. And now the consequences are showing themselves. As Live Action News previously noted, other nations with declining fertility have partially solved the problem with increasing immigration: The message is that ongoing high immigration, coupled with a recent increase in the birth rate, could keep the country’s population stable for another forty years… In 2015, Germany recorded net migration of more than one million people as a result of the arrival of refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2016, that figure was 750,000 people. Additionally, Bloomberg reports that in Germany, the fertility rate is up “thanks in part to a recent immigration surge but also to adoption of family-friendly policies, including raising parental-leave allowances.” With American immigration at its most controversial in decades, with its fertility rate hovering there as well, it’s clear it’s a season of decision for the nation. Deciding to not have children over and over is resulting in some dire consequences.
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Susan Michelle-Hanson
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https://www.liveaction.org/news/fertility-rate-us-women-plummets/
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2019-01-13 16:17:16+00:00
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liveaction--2019-12-09--As declining fertility rates are a growing problem worldwide, Hungary takes an innovative approach
| 2019-12-09T00:00:00 |
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As declining fertility rates are a growing problem worldwide, Hungary takes an innovative approach
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Government officials and pro-family advocates from Hungary, Poland, Brazil, and the United States met earlier this week in Washington, D.C., for the 2nd International Conference on Family Policy. Poland and Brazil were represented for the first time. They addressed the stark reality that over half of the world’s population — citizens of the United States along with every single European Union member country included — live in countries with below-replacement level fertility rates. Rather than counting on mass immigration to offset fertility rates below 2.1 children per woman as many countries have, Hungary shared a different approach. Among the incentives introduced since Prime Minister Viktor Orban took office in 2010 are loans up to $35,000 for parents to cover costs of living like mortgage payments. Furthermore, having three or more children can qualify families for complete forgiveness of the loan. According to the Christian Post, other benefits include ” a state-funded day care system, three years of paid parental leave, free kindergarten, and subsidized vacations.” What’s more, starting in 2020, mothers of four or more children will no longer have to pay income taxes. Hungary furthermore prioritizes preborn babies and nuclear families headed by one father and one mother. Enacted in 2011, Hungary’s Constitution reads “embryonic and fetal life shall be subject to protection from the moment of conception.” The Constitution also upholds “the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman established by voluntary decision, and the family as the basis of the nation’s survival.” Hungary’s Ambassador to the U.S., Laszlo Szabo, explained the rationale behind all of these initiatives. “We believe that strong family policy makes the country stronger and the nation stronger. When we are talking about nations, we are not talking about The Washington Post version of nationalism. We are talking about loving your country and making your country more successful.” Of note, both abortion and divorce rates have decreased in Hungary during the nine years since Prime Minister Orban took office. READ: Fertility rate of U.S. women plummets to lowest level in 30 years Joe Grogan, Director of the Trump administration’s Domestic Policy Council, celebrated Hungary’s efforts, and emphasized pro-family steps that the U.S. has taken since 2016. He cited President Trump’s doubling of the child tax credit to $2,000 for American families, efforts to decrease unnecessary regulations on child care providers, and bipartisan promotion of paid family leave as evidence of America’s commitment to promoting strong families. Grogan also stressed President Trump’s commitment to the sanctity of preborn human life, noting that “he has restricted the use of fetal tissue for federally funded research, and published a regulation that prevents the mixing of taxpayer funding for Title X family planning program with projects that promote or refer for abortion as a method of family planning.” Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland also dismissed the myth of overpopulation, saying “There is a growing realization among western nations that there have been myths propagated over the years. The myth, for instance, that overpopulation is the result of a birth rate. It’s not true. I am a physician. These graphs that present overpopulation is not because we have too many births, it is that people have now stay healthier and live longer because we deliver better medical care.” “Like” Live Action News on Facebook for more pro-life news and commentary!
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Anne Marie Williams
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https://www.liveaction.org/news/declining-fertility-rates-worldwide-hungary-approach/
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prisonplanet--2019-01-10--Fertility rate for white women plummets BELOW the limit needed to maintain the population in every s
| 2019-01-10T00:00:00 |
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Fertility rate for white women plummets BELOW the limit needed to maintain the population in every single US state
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Fertility rates for white women were down in every US state in 2017 – below the rate needed for the population to replace itself, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals. However, among black and Hispanic women, fertility rates were up in 12 and 29 states, respectively. When researchers looked at fertility rates for women of all age groups and races, they found that the nationwide rate was 16 percent lower than what is considered the level for a population to replace itself. Experts say this is likely due to the fact that the large proportion of native-born women are having fewer children than before, while the much smaller proportion of immigrant-born women are having more children. Additionally, the US white population has been hit hard by the Great Recession of 08-09, and is aging. This article was posted: Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 7:10 am
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2019-01-10 12:10:36+00:00
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prisonplanet--2019-07-27--US Fertility Rates Plunge To All-Time Low CDC Warns
| 2019-07-27T00:00:00 |
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US Fertility Rates Plunge To ‘All-Time Low,’ CDC Warns
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Something isn’t right in the “greatest economy ever,” as the general fertility rate continues to drop in the US, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Researchers used data from the National Vital Statistics System, discovered that the general fertility rate dropped 2% between 2017 and 2018 among females aged 15 to 44. Overall fertility dipped to 59.1 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44. In non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black women, it fell 2% in 2018, while a 3% drop in rates was observed in Hispanic women. Teen pregnancy rates plunged to record lows, the report revealed. The rate dropped 7% from 2017 to 2018, falling from 18.8 per 1,000 to 17.4 per 1,000. Teen births in non-Hispanic black teenagers declined 4% in 2018, and 8% in non-Hispanic white and Hispanic teenagers. NCHS stated in a separate report that the total fertility rate continues to dip underneath the level of what is needed to sustain a healthy population. We have routinely suggested why Millennials are delaying marriage and childbirth. And in our view – this life choice is tied explicitly to economics. Insurmountable student loans, credit card debt, and auto loans have delayed starting a family for many. A typical child costs $14k per year, or $234k from 0 to 17, the Department of Agriculture said, money that millennials would instead use to service their debts and or use it on life experiences, like vacations. So if the economy were so great, millennials would be able to start families, buy homes, and continue living the American dream like generations before them. But in reality, the dream died after the 2008 financial crisis, their standard of living was abruptly thrown into reverse, history will look by at millennials as the “lost generation.” This article was posted: Saturday, July 27, 2019 at 5:58 am
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2019-07-27 10:58:42+00:00
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prisonplanet--2019-12-06--US Fertility Rate Hit Record Low In 2018
| 2019-12-06T00:00:00 |
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US Fertility Rate Hit Record Low In 2018
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The US fertility rate dropped for the fourth straight year in 2018, and has fallen approximately 15% since 2007, according to the National Center for Health Statistics – which reports that there were 59.1 births for every 1,000 women of childbearing age. In total, 3,791,712 births were recorded across the country last year – extending a steep decline that began during the 2008 Recession, according to the New York Times. As one user in Reddit’s “Childfree” forum notes: “Babies are expensive, and we’re all broke,” to which another user replied “Also, pregnancy and its effects on the body are gross and not worth it.” There you go. While teen pregnancy rates dropped the most at 7.4%, women between 20 – 24 years of age recorded the second steepest decline of any age demographic, while mothers aged 40-44 rose 2% from 2017 – a demographic which has risen almost continuously since 1985 as women choose to have children later in life. “It’s clear that the traditional age-fertility pattern that held for Baby Boomers and Gen X women is shifting,” said Brookings Institution senior demographer William Frey, who notes that over 50% of women who had children in their late 30s last year had college degrees – eclipsing women in their late 20s. “The data suggest that people want to establish themselves before having children,” said Johns Hopkins demographer Alison Gemmill. “They also want to make sure they have adequate resources to raise quality children.” Meanwhile, suicide rates among young Americans are at 20-year highs. The Times notes that Demographers have been scratching their heads over whether this is a “temporary phenomenon or a new normal, driven by deeper social change.” Fertility rates tend to drop during difficult economic times, as people put off having babies, and then rise when the economy rebounds. That is what happened during and after the Great Depression of the 1930s. But this time around, the birthrate has not recovered with the economy. A brief uptick in the rate in 2014 did not last. “It is hard for me to believe that the birthrate just keeps going down,” said Kenneth M. Johnson, a demographer at the University of New Hampshire. Mr. Johnson estimated that if the rate had remained steady at its 2007 level, there would have been 5.7 million more births in the country since then. –New York Times The Times also notes that “Other sweeping social changes have accompanied the delay in childbearing. New data from the Census Bureau show that the median age of first marriage is now 28 for women and nearly 30 for men; in 1970, the median ages were 21 and 23,” according to Frey said. “This is a far cry from the 1950s, or even the 1980s and the 1990s.” Meanwhile, this poor guy is just trying to reproduce: This article was posted: Friday, December 6, 2019 at 6:51 am
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rt--2019-01-11--The next endangered species US fertility rates drop to 30-year low
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The next endangered species? US fertility rates drop to 30-year low
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Fertility rates in the US have dropped below what’s necessary to maintain population levels in nearly every state, and the fertility rate for the entire country is the lowest it has been in 30 years, according to a new CDC report. White women’s fertility rates declined in every single state, dropping below the rate needed to replenish the population, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention revealed in an analysis of 2017 birth data. White people are aging more rapidly than other populations, and like all races have been hurt by the Great Recession. The baby drought is the worst the US has seen in three decades, the CDC found, warning that it’s not just whites – the fertility rate for all races combined is now 16 percent lower than what’s needed to sustain current US population levels. Unless the decline reverses, researchers warn there will not be enough healthy young workers to shoulder the burden of the aging American population. Only in South Dakota and Utah was the birth rate high enough to maintain the population. The prognosis is less grim for black women, with a fertility rate higher than the minimum sustainable rate in 12 states, and Hispanic women, whose fertility exceeded the baseline in 29 states. American birth rates have declined over the past decade, especially in large metropolitan areas, which saw an 18 percent drop across all races since 2007. Economic insecurity, later marriages, and a sharp drop in teenage pregnancies have all contributed to the decline, which follows similar demographic trends in western Europe. Many young women feel forced to choose between motherhood and career due to the lack of paid maternity leave and affordable childcare, according to a 2018 survey which analyzed Americans’ reasons for delaying or eschewing reproduction. Others put off starting a family until they could afford a house or pay off student loan debts – goals Americans are finding increasingly impossible to reach. Indeed, it’s not surprising that the two states with birthrates surpassing the replacement rate –Utah and South Dakota – are also two of the three best economic performers for 2017. Utah’s large Mormon population – Mormons have, on average, one more child per family than the national average – doesn’t hurt, either. Washington, DC had the lowest fertility rate, and despite its status as the nation’s capital, it is also notorious for its poverty. Like this story? Share it with a friend!
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2019-01-11 01:57:00+00:00
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sputnik--2019-01-23--Finland Betting on Russian Mums-to-Be Amid Low Fertility Rates
| 2019-01-23T00:00:00 |
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Finland Betting on Russian Mums-to-Be Amid Low Fertility Rates
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Hyksin Ltd, a private hospital run by the Helsinki and Uusimaa hospital district (HUS) and the South Karelia social and health care district Eksote plan to open a maternity clinic in Saint Petersburg, hoping to encourage Russian women to give birth in Finland, Finnish national broadcaster Yle reported. An agreement that is currently being negotiated would make it possible for foreign mothers to have their babies at the South Karelia Central Hospital in Lappeenranta. The distance from Lappeenranta to Russia's "northern capital" is only 220 kilometres. This is half the distance of the Hyvinkää hospital that opened maternity services for expectant Russian mothers in 2013. However, Russian women have found lthe ong-distance commute uncomfortable. The proposed Saint Petersburg clinic would target private patients planning to have babies in Finland. Currently foreign mothers must be in Finland one month before their due date, so they can attend a maternity clinic. Mothers visiting Finland to give birth pay 10,000 euros ($11,300) for the service. "They could visit the clinic in Saint Petersburg and then come to Finland when they are ready to deliver", Eksote chief Pentti Itkonen pointed out. READ MORE: Too Much Hassle! More Finns Postpone Parenthood for Personal Freedom Finnish officials believe the move will boost interest among Russian mothers to give birth in Finland amid an increasingly fierce competition in the childbirth tourism market. However, there are other reasons for this move than economic competition. In 2018, Finland's fertility rate fell to an all-time low of 1.49 children per woman. At the same time, the number of births dropped to its lowest level since the great famine of 1866-1868 when the country had a population of no more than 1.75 million (as opposed to 5.5 million today). The drop is hardly an anomaly, as the total fertility rate has now decreased for seven consecutive years. In a fresh population forecast, Eksote estimated that in the South Karelia district, the number of births will fall to between 500 and 600 a year. "A decade from now we simply won't have enough mothers of childbearing age", Pentti Itkonen explained. In 2010, Lappeenranta had 1,240 births, so the maternity ward capacity would suffice to accommodate visiting mothers as well, he added. "If we delivered one baby a day for a visiting mother, in one year that would be enough to maintain a maternity ward here", Itkonen explained. By contrast, shutting down the Lappeenranta maternity facility would mean that expectant mothers in the entire region would have to travel to other cities, such as Kotka or Lahti, to give birth. According to Itkonen, offering cancer treatments to foreign patients is also a viable option.
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2019-01-23 08:00:00+00:00
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tass--2019-02-13--Russian labor minister points to latent recovery in shrinking fertility rates in 2018
| 2019-02-13T00:00:00 |
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Russian labor minister points to latent recovery in shrinking fertility rates in 2018
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SOCHI, February 13. /TASS/. Russia's falling fertility rate halved in 2018, Labor Minister Maxim Topilin said on Wednesday at a Sochi forum dubbed: "Healthy Life Forum: Towards 80+." "If we look at the declining fertility rate, we will see that it was about 11% in 2017 but rose to 4.6% in 2018," the minister noted. According to Topilin, a report covering 11 months of 2018 has the total fertility rate at 1.597. He added that the Federal State Statistics Service would present the final figure in June. The Demography national project stipulates that the index must reach 1.7 by 2024. The forum, which is taking place for the first time, is expected to become an annual expert conference aimed at hashing over ways to extend the average life expectancy to 78 years by 2024 and to 80 years by 2030. The event mostly seeks to develop expert initiatives for the implementation of national programs and projects in areas such as demography, healthcare, science, education and the environment. The Russian Health Ministry is sponsoring the forum. In other media
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2019-02-13 11:34:24+00:00
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windowoneurasiablog--2019-10-03--Russian Fertility Rate will Continue to Fall Even if Economy Improves Data Show
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Russian Fertility Rate will Continue to Fall Even if Economy Improves, Data Show
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Staunton, September 30 – Fertility rates in Russia have again fallen to the levels they were in during the 1990s, Rosstat data show, and the government assumes that when the deceive economy improves, they will go right back up. But a more careful examination of the data suggests that underlying shifts in values make that an almost impossible dream. But the data show that the confidence the authorities have because of the latter figure will have almost no impact on the overall fertility rate. On the one hand, large families, those with three or four children, are the product not of the current situation but the one over the last 15 years of even more. Families with three children now may have had their first long ago. And second, and even more significant, there are too few large families to influence the overall picture. Even if there are more large families now than there were ten years ago, their share of the total population is so small that they will not make any important difference in the overall pattern of demographic decline. But there are other more profound trends that the powers that be don’t talk about even though their own numbers show that point to a continuing decline in the number of children per woman per lifetime. One of these is the divergence between the number of children Russian say the want – 2.15 per family – and the number they expect – 1.9 – and actually have – 1.5 At present, “only 27 percent” of Russians queried about family size say they want three or more children. Seven years ago, that figure was 32 percent, Chernyshov says. And that has little to do with economics: the higher on the income pyramid Russians are, the fewer children they say they want to have and do. Another factor suppressing fertility rates are changes in attitudes toward marriage, given that those who get married are more likely to have children than those who simply cohabit. At present, surveys show that “only 65 percent of women and 52 percent of men under 40 consider it necessary to register a first marriage. Moreover, ever more Russians of both sexes are against marriage as such, with seven percent of women and 12 percent of men saying that now as opposed to four percent and eight percent in a survey five years ago. As a result, more are cohabiting and not having children. In 2017, 39 percent of women and 47 percent of men were in that state, nine percent and four percent higher than five years earlier. Many women in these relationships use abortions to avoid having children and that means that if and when they do try to give birth, they face problems. According to health ministry expert Oleg Apolikhin, 77 percent of Russian women seeking to give birth have significant medical problems that can prevent them from carrying a child to term. Yet another factor working against a recovery of Russian fertility rates whatever happens to the economy, the Nakanune expert says, is the increasing interval between the time of entry into marriage and the birth of the first child and between the birth of the first child and each succeeding one The first figure has risen from 15 months in the early 2000s to three years as of 2015-2017. And the second from two years in the early 1990s to four years in the early 2000s to 5.5 years now. These changes and their timing show, Chernyshov continues, that “with regard to the birthrate, in first place stand not social-economic factors” as the government imagines “but purely worldview and spiritual ones” that won’t be profoundly affected by economic change. Put in the starkest terms, he says, “in the consciousness of half of Russians, a commitment to maximum satisfaction of their sexual requirements without taking any responsibility for them [by having children] has replaced the family at the center of their thinking. And economic difficulties have only an indirect impact on this.”
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paul goble ([email protected])
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http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2019/10/russian-fertility-rate-will-continue-to.html
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2019-10-03 09:07:00.001000+00:00
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hitandrun--2019-07-26--US Fertility Falls to Lowest Rate Ever
| 2019-07-26T00:00:00 |
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U.S. Fertility Falls to Lowest Rate Ever
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The country's total fertility rate hit a record low last year, prompting yet another round of calls for the government to do something to encourage Americans to have more babies. But this isn't a sign of a crisis that needs fixing—it's a sign that people have more control over their lives. The total fertility rate (TFR) is the total number of children likely to be born to a woman in her lifetime, assuming her generation's level of fertility remains unchanged. A TFR of about 2.1 children per woman is called replacement-level fertility—that is, the average number of children each woman would need to bear to keep a country's population steady. A sustained TFR below that indicates that the population of a country will eventually begin shrinking. In 2018, according to the latest vital statistics report from the National Center for Health Statistics, the rate hit 1.728. This was a new low, surpassing the previous record of 1.738, reached back in 1976. This is part of a larger, global trend toward lower fertility rates. In 1950, no country in the world had a TFR below 2.1 children per woman. Now about half of the world's nations are below replacement. Global TFR was around 5 children per woman in 1960; it's 2.4 now. As per capita GDP and levels of education rise, the number of children that women choose to have falls. This trend evidently alarms some folks, including the right-wing intellectuals and apparatchiks who have recently gathered under the banner of "national conservatism." "There are a lot of ways to measure a healthy society," claimed J.D. Vance, author of the bestselling Hillbilly Elegy, at the national conservatives' conference. "But the way that I measure a healthy society—the most important way to measure a healthy society—is whether the American nation is having enough children to replace itself." John A. Burtka IV, executive director of The American Conservative, wrote a Washington Post op-ed proposing that national conservatives adopt a suite of pro-natalist policies. These "might include paid family leave, increasing the child tax credit, federally funded prenatal and maternal care, reducing or eliminating income tax on families with three or more children, and working toward a society in which a mother or father can support a family on a single income." Similar aggressive pro-natalist policies in France have apparently managed to raise that country's TFR from its nadir of 1.73 in 1994 all the way up to 1.92 in 2017. That's still below replacement. Evidently, bribing people to have babies goes only so far. But why should the number of children that parents choose to have be any business of the state's minions? It was only a generation ago that overpopulation alarmist Paul Ehrlich was arguing that a tax penalty of $600 per child should be imposed on families. (This was in 1968, when the U.S. median income stood at $7,700 per household.) Falling fertility rates are, among other things, an indication that folks are less subject to the vagaries of nature and are now availing themselves of their increasing power to choose the number of children that they wish to have. That's not a crisis. It's a good thing.
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Ronald Bailey ([email protected])
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/HitandRun/~3/-UphOf7SxKI/
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2019-07-26 16:05:26+00:00
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prepareforchange--2019-01-14--Globalists call for celebration of plunging human fertility as war against humanity accelerates
| 2019-01-14T00:00:00 |
prepareforchange
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Globalists call for “celebration” of plunging human fertility as war against humanity accelerates
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You may recall it was barely two weeks ago that the New York Times published an op-ed applauding the extermination of the human race as a way to “save the planet.” Now, The UK Guardian, a globalist-run propaganda rag that despises human freedom, has published a story saying that declining birth rates of human babies is a “cause for celebration.” “Declining fertility rates around the world should be cause for celebration, not alarm, a leading expert has said,” reports the UK Guardian. The story cites Sarah Harper, a former director of the Royal Institution, a globalist-run depopulation front group, who explains that, “far from igniting alarm and panic falling total fertility rates were to be embraced, and countries should not worry if their population is not growing.” Incredibly, Sarah Harper cites the rise of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and illegal immigration as reasons why human fertility doesn’t matter anymore. Apparently, she thinks that Third World illegals and self-aware machines will replace the humans in developing nations. That’s exactly why these globalists want open borders, by the way… to overrun First World nations and populate them with low-education masses that are easy to control (and easy for globalists to exterminate). Giving birth to human babies to sustain human society, “is really old thinking,” she explains in the UK Guardian article. “All the evidence is, that if families, households, societies, countries have to deal with large numbers of dependants, it takes away resources that could be put into driving society, the economy etc.,” she stated. In other words, Harper is arguing that having human babies is holding back society, and that real “progress” requires shutting down reproductive fertility. Lucky for her, flu shots cause spontaneous abortions. Glyphosate interferes with human fertility. Social media isolates people from each other so they can’t reproduce, and prescription medications cause early death. It looks like things are right on track for anyone who despises humanity and wants to see the collapse of human civilization. The paper goes on to parrot the globalist line that claims giving birth to human babies will destroy the planet. This is a frequent argument of the anti-humanists who see the extermination of humankind as their pathway to utopia (not realizing they, too, will be exterminated). As The Guardian writes: Having fewer children is also undoubtedly positive from an environmental point of view; recent research has found that having one fewer child reduces a parent’s carbon footprint by 58 tonnes of CO2 a year. Carbon dioxide, of course, is the single most important nutrient for supporting plant life on planet Earth, and higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere would unleash worldwide abundance of rainforests, food crops and ecological diversity. Globalist-run anti-human papers like The Guardian, of course, are all ordered to attack carbon dioxide as a poison in order to vilify botany and accelerate the collapse of the global food web. As I explained in this hugely important article — The inescapable explanation that connects all world events unfolding now — globalists are now working to achieve the “efficient extermination” of humankind. That’s why The Guardian is celebrating plummeting human fertility while attacking carbon dioxide. The globalist-run media is also currently promoting geoengineering experiments to dim the sun by releasing pollution into the stratosphere. The purpose of this is, of course, to shut down photosynthesis and collapse the world food supply, causing the mass starvation of humankind. Over the last month or so, I’ve gone public with my warning that an actual eugenics war is being waged against humanity. This war is not merely a war to enslave and control the masses but to exterminate humanity altogether. A cosmic ethnic cleansing is under way, and humanity is scheduled to be “efficiently exterminated” and removed from existence. The purpose of this agenda is exactly what the globalists say it is: To “save the planet” … but not for humans. The goal is to save the planet from humans. Inescapably, a core feature of everything happening today is an anti-human agenda to exterminate humankind. Every major trend taking place today is preparing humankind for a mass extermination event, making sure humans cannot fight back, think for themselves or even reproduce. With the food supply poisoned, male biology attacked and nullified, and even the power to think systematically compromised, the human race has been turned into a slave farm of obedient sheeple, ready to be harvested or eliminated for reasons that are further explored below. You’re already starting to see the globalist-run media celebrating the collapse of human fertility while saying the extermination of humankind might be a “good” thing for the planet. This propaganda effort will only accelerate in 2019 and beyond. Soon, you’re going to see the same left-wing lunatics who currently claim gender is an artificial construct — a convenient contrivance to vilify sexual reproduction — attacking parents for having any children at all. Even giving birth to a single child will be portrayed as an attack on “the climate,” and in time, the same left-wing violent mobs that attack people for loving their country will start murdering people solely because they have babies. Babies will be vilified as destroyers of Earth, and parents with babies will be condemned and even physically assaulted in public in exactly the same way that Trump supporters are vilified and assaulted today. Newspapers will argue that parents who have children are “selfish” and “narcissistic” for wanting to raise children who will “steal resources from society” for their very existence. In fact, that’s precisely what Susan Harper is already arguing in The Guardian article cited above. There is no limit to the insanity of the Left Cult, and it’s now abundantly clear that Leftists have been brainwashed into a kind of suicide pact that celebrates the extermination of humanity in the name of “saving the planet.” What they haven’t been told, of course, is that the planet isn’t being saved for humans… and that even left-wing humans are also slated for extermination once their usefulness has run its course. This Nazi propaganda poster argues for the euthanizing of people who have illnesses, saying the money should be invested in society rather than treating the sick: You are sharing the load A person with a hereditary disease costs on average RM 50,000 by the time they reach their 60th birthday. In summary, if we do not defeat the globalists currently running our world, they will do everything in their power to utterly eliminate humankind from the cosmos. From their point of view, babies are the enemy and must be dissuaded or destroyed (via abortions and otherwise). Sexual reproduction is the enemy, and only gay, trans and gender-fluid individuals are allowed to occupy prominent positions in human culture. Vaccine shots will continue to be laced with infertility drugs, just as scientific laboratories have repeatedly confirmed is happening in Africa under the watchful eye of the United Nations, an anti-human organization that now seeks the global enslavement and termination of human beings. In the end, if awake and aware humans do not stop the globalists who are deliberately destroying our world, our civilization and our species, they will succeed in ending the human race forever. This is their goal, and it explains why everything you witness in media, news, pop culture and left-wing politics is deliberately designed to achieve destruction, collapse, starvation, destitution, disease and death. This is their plan. And so far they are carrying it out with almost no resistance whatsoever. Will humanity wake up and realize what’s happening before it’s too late? Stay informed. Read Extinction.news as we roll out that new site, and be prepared to fight for human survival.
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Edward Morgan
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https://prepareforchange.net/2019/01/13/globalists-call-for-celebration-of-plunging-human-fertility-as-war-against-humanity-accelerates/
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2019-01-14 00:12:11+00:00
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fortune--2019-12-30--With Births Down, U.S. Had Slowest Growth Rate in a Century
| 2019-12-30T00:00:00 |
fortune
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With Births Down, U.S. Had Slowest Growth Rate in a Century
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Why Your Next Dress Could Be Made of Horseradish
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Jaclyn Gallucci
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https://fortune.com/2019/12/30/us-census-bureau-population-growth-rate/
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Mon, 30 Dec 2019 20:13:46 +0000
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thelibertydaily--2019-12-30--Democrat War on Life: With Births Down, U.S. Had Slowest Growth Rate in a Century
| 2019-12-30T00:00:00 |
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Democrat War on Life: With Births Down, U.S. Had Slowest Growth Rate in a Century
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Matthew Burke
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-30/with-births-down-u-s-had-slowest-growth-rate-in-a-century
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Mon, 30 Dec 2019 23:11:08 +0000
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thetorontostar--2019-12-30--With births down, U.S. had slowest growth rate in a century
| 2019-12-30T00:00:00 |
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With births down, U.S. had slowest growth rate in a century
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ORLANDO, Fla. - The past year’s population growth rate in the United States was the slowest in a century due to declining births, increasing deaths and the slowdown of international migration, according to figures released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The U.S. grew from 2018 to 2019 by almost a half per cent, or about 1.5 million people, with the population standing at 328 million this year, according to population estimates. That’s the slowest growth rate in the U.S. since 1917 to 1918, when the nation was involved in World War I, said William Frey, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. For the first time in decades, natural increase — the number of births minus the number of deaths — was less than 1 million in the U.S. due to an aging population of Baby Boomers, whose oldest members entered their 70s within the past several years. As the large Boomer population continues to age, this trend is going to continue. “Some of these things are locked into place. With the aging of the population, as the Baby Boomers move into their 70s and 80s, there are going to be higher numbers of deaths,” Frey said. “That means proportionately fewer women of child bearing age, so even if they have children, it’s still going to be less.” Four states had a natural decrease, where deaths outnumbered births: West Virginia, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. For the first time this decade, Puerto Rico had a population increase. The island, battered by economic stagnation and Hurricane Maria in the past several years, increased by 340 people between 2018 and 2019, with people moving to the island offsetting natural decrease. International migration to the U.S. decreased to 595,000 people from 2018 to 2019, dropping from as many as 1 million international migrants in 2016, according to the population estimates. Immigration restrictions by the Trump administration combined with a perception that the U.S. has fewer economic opportunities than it did before the recession a decade ago contributed to the decline, Frey said. “Immigration is a wildcard in that it is something we can do something about,” Frey said. “Immigrants tend to be younger and have children, and they can make a population younger.” Ten states had population declines in the past year. They included New York, which lost almost 77,000 people; Illinois, which lost almost 51,000 residents; West Virginia, which lost more than 12,000 people; Louisiana, which lost almost 11,000 residents; and Connecticut, which lost 6,200 people. Mississippi, Hawaii, New Jersey, Alaska and Vermont each lost less than 5,000 residents. Regionally, the South saw the greatest population growth from 2018 to 2019, increasing 0.8% due to natural increase and people moving from others parts of the country. The Northeast had a population decrease for the first time this decade, declining 0.1% due primarily to people moving away. Monday’s population estimates also offer a preview of which states may gain or lose congressional seats from next year’s apportionment process using figures from the 2020 Census. The process divvies up the 435 U.S. House seats among the 50 states based on population. Several forecasts predict California, the nation’s most populous state with 39.5 million residents, losing a seat for the first time. Texas, the nation’s second most-populous state with 28.9 million residents, is expected to gain as many as three seats, the most of any state. According to Frey’s projections on Monday, Florida stands to gain two seats, while Arizona, Colorado, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon each stand to gain a seat. Besides, California, other states that will likely lose a seat are Alabama, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia.
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Mike Schneider - The Associated Press
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https://www.thestar.com/news/world/us/2019/12/30/with-births-down-us-had-slowest-growth-rate-in-a-century.html
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Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:14:36 EST
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drudgereport--2019-07-26--CDC Fertility rate all-time low
| 2019-07-26T00:00:00 |
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CDC: Fertility rate all-time low...
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The general fertility rate in the United States continued to decline last year, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. "The 2018 general fertility rate fell to another all-time low for the United States," the researchers wrote in the report, published Wednesday. The report found that the general fertility rate dropped 2% between 2017 and 2018 among girls and women age 15 to 44 nationwide. In 2017, the total fertility rate for the United States continued to dip below what's needed for the population to replace itself, according to a separate report published by the National Center for Health Statistics in January. America's fertility rate and the number of births nationwide have been on the decline in recent years. A report of provisional birth data published by the National Center for Health Statistics in May showed the number of births last year dropping to its lowest level in about three decades. Now the center's latest report presents selected highlights from that 2018 birth data. For the report, researchers examined birth certificate data from the National Vital Statistics System's Natality Data File, taking a close look at births among white, black and Hispanic women in 2018. America just had its lowest number of births in 32 years, report finds When examined by race, the data showed that fertility rates declined 2% for white and black women, and 3% for Hispanic women, between 2017 and 2018. The data also showed that the teen birth rate, for ages 15 to 19, fell 7% from 2017 to 2018. When examined by race, the data showed that teen births declined by 4% for black teenagers, and 8% for white and Hispanic teens. Also among all births, the percentage delivered at less than full term, or 39 weeks, increased -- with preterm births climbing from 9.93% of births in 2017 to 10.02% in 2018, and early-term births rising from 26% in 2017 to 26.53% in 2018. The percentages of births delivered at full-, late- and post-term declined, according to the data. Full-term births were down from 57.49% of births in 2017 to 57.24% in 2018, the data showed, and post-term births declined from 6.58% to 6.2%. Sign up here to get The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta every Tuesday from the CNN Health team. Overall, a rise in preterm births might be linked with a rise in births among women in their late 30s and 40s , since a later maternal age is a risk factor, Dr. Rahul Gupta, chief medical and health officer for March of Dimes , a nonprofit focused on the health of mothers and babies, said in May . He was not involved in the new report. "The continuing shift toward increased maternal age at first birth is something that does increase the risk. However, it does not fully explain the increase in the preterm birth rate. So that's one of the challenges here, I think, for the nation," he said. "There is a lot more work that needs to be done as the preterm birth rate continues to rise."
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2019-07-26 05:34:37+00:00
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theonion--2019-08-16--Naked Out-Of-Breath CDC Director Announces Nations Fertility Rate No Longer In Decline
| 2019-08-16T00:00:00 |
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Naked, Out-Of-Breath CDC Director Announces Nation’s Fertility Rate No Longer In Decline
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ATLANTA—Wiping the sweat from his brow and drinking from a glass of water, naked, out-of-breath CDC director Robert Redfield announced at a press conference Friday that the nation’s fertility rate was no longer in decline. “I am happy to announce that after a slow, two-decade decline in American birth rates, our efforts have finally reversed the trend,” said a smiling, visibly flushed Redfield while wiping himself down and dabbing at his forehead with a cool, damp cloth. “Combating declining fertility was hard work but very satisfying, and everyone was really fantastic. I estimate that nine months from now there will be a population explosion. And if you give me another 20 minutes, I bet we can increase it even more.” At press time, Redfield had passed out and started napping behind the lectern.
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The Onion
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https://www.theonion.com/naked-out-of-breath-cdc-director-announces-nation-s-fe-1837305732
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2019-08-16 15:53:00+00:00
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cnsnews--2019-02-20--Myth of Overpopulation Refuses to Die
| 2019-02-20T00:00:00 |
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Myth of ‘Overpopulation’ Refuses to Die
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We’ve mentioned in the past on BreakPoint about “zombie abortion arguments.” You know, those arguments that just won’t die? They continue to be repeated long after they should have been “dead and buried.” Like zombies in movies, these arguments continue shuffling along, seemingly impervious to the reality that they are dead. Abortion isn’t the only issue confused by “zombie arguments.” There’s a whole host of “should-be-dead-by-now” ideas having to do with so-called “overpopulation.” I say “so-called” because virtually every dire prediction Paul Ehrlich made fifty years ago in his book “The Population Bomb” was wrong. Spectacularly wrong, in fact. Yet Ehrlich’s ideas remain an article of faith among many—and I mean that literally. In “The Walking Dead,” the only sure way to dispatch a zombie is with a headshot. Well, a new book should be the headshot for Ehrlich’s ideas. Unfortunately, many people’s worldviews harden to the point of becoming ideological kevlar helmets. The book of which I speak is “Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline” by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson. To be clear, there’s far more than one “shock” described in “Empty Planet,” but all of them flow from a single reality. Contrary to what people have been taught to believe for decades, “We do not face the challenge of a population bomb but of a population bust—a relentless, generation-after-generation culling of the human herd.” As the Canadian duo documents, an increasing number of demographers around the world believe that the UN’s estimates, that human population will peak at 11 billion in 2100, are far too high. The more likely outcome, they suggest, is that “the planet’s population will peak at around nine billion sometime between 2040 and 2060, and then start to decline.” According to Bricker and Ibbitson, “Once that decline begins, it will never end.” Their argument is scarily plausible. They are not exaggerating when they call this decline the “great defining event of the twenty-first century” and “one of the great defining events in human history.” We talk a lot on BreakPoint about the decline of fertility rates in the industrialized world: Western Europe, Japan and the United States. We have described the dire economic and social consequences of this decline. What “Empty Planet” makes clear is that this decline isn’t limited to the usual suspects. South Korea is headed down the same road to demographic catastrophe as Japan. Even more ominously, similar trends are emerging in the developing world. By the middle of this century, Brazil, Indonesia, China, and even India will begin to see their populations decline. The reasons behind the decline are, not surprisingly, mostly cultural. In a brilliant bit of analysis, the authors point out that “as societies become more modern and urban, friends and co-workers replace siblings, parents, and uncles and aunts.” Families may put subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle pressure on young people to get married and have kids, but friends rarely do. And then, there’s this well-established link between religiosity and fertility, something we’ve talked about before on BreakPoint. Population decline is going to be a nasty shock, especially in the economic realm. Ideally, there should be about six workers for every retiree. Thanks to increased life expectancy and low birth rates, it is projected to drop to about three by 2050 and about two by 2100. We may live longer but there will be fewer of us, and our societies will be less dynamic, entrepreneurial, and creative. Despite these realities, the myth of “overpopulation” refuses to die. Efforts to combat fertility and population growth, whether governmental policies or cultural incentives, are terrible ideas that threaten to make victims of us all. Still, unlike Bricker and Ibbitson, I refuse to give up hope. Faith, especially Christian faith, is still strong in many parts of the world. And while that persists, there’s still a chance to avoid some of the “shocks” they describe in “Empty Planet.” Otherwise a different, but no less real, zombie apocalypse awaits us. John Stonestreet is President of The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview and BreakPoint co-host. : This piece was originally published by BreakPoint.
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John Stonestreet
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https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/john-stonestreet/myth-overpopulation-refuses-die
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2019-02-20 20:07:55+00:00
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drudgereport--2019-02-20--Two is enough Egypt tells poor families as population booms
| 2019-02-20T00:00:00 |
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'Two is enough,' Egypt tells poor families as population booms...
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SOHAG, Egypt (Reuters) - Nesma Ghanem is hoping for a fourth child even though her doctor says her body can’t handle a pregnancy at the moment. She has three daughters and would like them to have a brother. “In the future he could support his father and the girls,” said Ghanem, 27, who lives in a village in Sohag, an area with one of Egypt’s highest fertility rates. The family depends on her husband’s income from a local cafe. “If I have a son people, here in the village can say that he will carry on his father’s name,” she said. As Egypt’s population heads towards 100 million, the government is trying to change the minds of people like Ghanem. “Two Is Enough” is the government’s first family-planning campaign aiming to challenge traditions of large families in rural Egypt. But Ghanem’s wish to have a son shows how hard that could be. “The main challenge is that we’re trying to change a way of thinking,” said Randa Fares, coordinator of the campaign at the Social Solidarity Ministry. “To change a way of thinking is difficult.” Egypt’s population is growing by 2.6 million a year, a high rate for a country where water and jobs are scarce and schools and hospitals overcrowded. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi says the two biggest threats to Egypt are terrorism and population growth. “We are faced with scarcity in water resources ... scarcity in jobs, job creation, and we need to really control this population growth so that people can feel the benefits of development,” Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Wali told Reuters. Decades ago, Egypt had a family-planning program, supported by the United States. The fertility rate fell from 5.6 children per woman in 1976 to 3.0 in 2008 while the use of contraceptives went up from 18.8 percent to 60.3 percent. Large amounts of contraceptives were made available and advertisements increased demand for birth control. Support for family planning from the Egyptian government and large sums from donors helped make the program successful, said Duff Gillespie, who directed USAID’s population office from 1986 to 1993. But Egypt was relying on donor support and when that assistance went away, family planning was neglected. By 2014 the fertility rate had gone up to 3.5. The United States is supporting family planning in Egypt again, providing more than $19 million for a five-year project ending in 2022 and $4 million for a smaller private sector project ending in 2020. Those amounts are significantly lower than the $371 million the United States spent on family planning in Egypt between 1976 and 2008. “Two Is Enough” is mainly financed by Egyptian money, with the Social Solidarity Ministry spending 75 million Egyptian pounds ($4.27 million) and the U.N. providing 10 million pounds, according to the ministry. The two-year campaign targets more than 1.1 million poor families with up to three children. The Social Solidarity Ministry, with local NGOs, has trained volunteers to make home visits and encourage people to have fewer children. Mothers are invited to seminars with preachers who say that Islam allows family planning, and doctors who answer questions. Billboards and TV ads promote smaller families. The government aims to reduce the current fertility rate of 3.5 to 2.4 by 2030. At a session teaching volunteers how to speak to mothers and fathers about family planning in a village in Giza, Asmaa Mohammad, a 25-year-old volunteer, told Reuters she would rather have three children than two. “Since I was a child I knew I wanted three children,” said Mohammad who is unmarried and doesn’t have children yet. Deeply rooted traditions and lack of education explain why many Egyptians have big families. Al-Azhar, Egypt’s top Sunni Muslim authority, endorses family planning, but not all Egyptians agree. Some view children as a future source of support. Others who only have girls keep having more until they get a boy who can carry on the family name. During a visit from a campaign volunteer, Ghanem said her wish to have a boy was not the main reason she wasn’t using contraceptives. She stopped using an IUD after suffering from bleeding. About one in three Egyptian women stop using contraceptives within a year, often due to misinformation about the side effects or lack of information about alternatives, according to the United Nations Population Fund. Nearly 13 percent of married women of reproductive age in Egypt want to use contraceptives but are unable to, according to official data from 2014. Now the government has renovated clinics, added staff and provided more free contraceptives. Under “Two is Enough” the goal is to have 70 new clinics up and running in March. But when Reuters visited a clinic in Sohag last month, there were no contraceptives left. Nema Mahmoud, who had traveled from her village, was told to come back the next day. Sohag, one of Egypt’s poorest governorates, also has one of the highest fertility rates at 4.3. The National Population Council said contraceptive use in Sohag is the lowest among six governorates surveyed. For years Mahmoud, 33, didn’t use contraceptives consistently even though she wanted a small family. Her mother-in-law kept her from traveling to the city to get contraceptives when the local clinic was out, she said. It was only after her mother-in-law died that she started using contraceptives properly. By then Mahmoud had three children and three miscarriages. Since January, the government has limited cash assistance to poor families to two children instead of three in an attempt to push them to have fewer kids. Mahmoud will receive less cash every month. Her husband works only a few days a month, making 45 Egyptian pounds ($2.60) a day, she said. Mahmoud and her neighbor Sanaa Mohammad, a 38-year-old mother of three, said the change should apply to new families, not women like them who already benefit from the program and have more than two children. “It’s not fair to give someone something and then take it away,” said Mohammad. The government sees the population boom as a threat to its economic reform plans. Every year, 800,000 young Egyptians enter the labor market, where unemployment is officially 10 percent. In Egypt, population growth is around half the economic growth rate, but it should be no more than a third - otherwise it will be difficult to invest in social programs and improve living standards, said Magued Osman, chief executive of Baseera, the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research. Analysts say Egypt should target people before they have children and sex education should be available in schools. “Two Is Enough is good, but by itself it will not do the job,” said Abla Abdel Latif, executive director of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies. Wafaa Mohammad Amin, 36, a mother of four who works on “Two Is Enough”, got married at 17 and had her first child a year later. Two of her children were malnourished because she didn’t know how to breastfeed properly. She had to postpone her education and couldn’t work for years. “There are many things I know now that I wish I had known back then,” she said. “I don’t want others to go through what I went through.”
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drudgereport--2019-06-18--World population projected to STOP growing by end of century
| 2019-06-18T00:00:00 |
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World population projected to STOP growing by end of century...
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[](https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds- population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the- century/ft_19-06-17_worldpopulation_world-population-growth-projected- flatten/)For the first time in modern history, the world’s population is expected to virtually stop growing by the end of this century, due in large part to falling global fertility rates, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of [new data from the United Nations](https://population.un.org/wpp/). By 2100, the world’s population is projected to reach approximately 10.9 billion, with annual growth of less than 0.1% – a steep decline from current levels. Between 1950 and today, the world’s population grew between 1% and 2% each year, with the number of people rising from 2.5 billion to more than 7.7 billion. Here are 11 key takeaways from the UN’s “[World Population Prospects 2019](https://population.un.org/wpp/Publications/Files/WPP2019_Highlights.pdf)”: **1[](https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds- population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the- century/ft_19-06-17_worldpopulation_global-fertility-is-falling-as-world-is- aging/)The global fertility rate is expected to be 1.9 births per woman by 2100, down from 2.5 today.** The rate is projected to fall below the replacement fertility rate (2.1 births per woman) by 2070. The replacement fertility rate is the number of births per woman needed to maintain a population’s size. **2 The world’s median age is expected to increase to 42 in 2100, up from the current 31 – and from 24 in 1950.** Between 2020 and 2100, the number of people ages 80 and older is expected to increase from 146 million to 881 million. Starting in 2073, there are projected to be more people ages 65 and older than under age 15 – the first time this will be the case. Contributing factors to the rise in the median age are the increase in life expectancy and falling fertility rates. **3 Africa is the only world region projected to have strong population growth for the rest of this century.** Between 2020 and 2100, Africa’s population is expected to increase from 1.3 billion to 4.3 billion. Projections show these gains will come mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, which is expected to more than triple in population by 2100. The regions that include the United States and Canada (Northern America) and Australia and New Zealand (Oceania) are projected to grow throughout the rest of the century, too, but at slower rates than Africa. (This analysis uses [regional classifications](https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/) from the UN and may differ from other Pew Research Center reports.) [](https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds- population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the- century/ft_19-06-17_worldpopulation_populiation-growth-africa-projected- remain-strong/) **4 Europe and Latin America are both expected to have declining populations by 2100. **Europe’s population is projected to peak at 748 million in 2021. The Latin America and Caribbean region is expected to surpass Europe in population by 2037 before peaking at 768 million in 2058. **5 The population of Asia is expected to increase from 4.6 billion in 2020 to 5.3 billion in 2055, then start to decline. **China’s population is expected to peak in 2031, while the populations of Japan and South Korea are projected to decline after 2020. India’s population is expected to grow until 2059, when it will reach 1.7 billion. Meanwhile, Indonesia – the most populous country in Southeastern Asia – is projected to reach its peak population in 2067. **6 In the Northern America region, migration from the rest of the world is expected to be the primary driver of continued population growth.** The immigrant population in the United States is expected to see a net increase of 85 million over the next 80 years (2020 to 2100) according to the UN projections, roughly equal to the total of the next nine highest countries combined. In Canada, migration is likely to be a key driver of growth, as Canadian deaths are expected to outnumber births. **7[](https://www.pewresearch.org /fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing- by-the-end-of-the-century/ft_19-06-17_worldpopulation_by-2100-five-of-10 -largest-countries-projected-to-be-in-africa/)Six countries are projected to account for more than half of the world’s population growth through the end of this century, and five are in Africa.** The global population is expected to grow by about 3.1 billion people between 2020 and 2100. More than half of this increase is projected to come from Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Angola, along with one non-African country (Pakistan). Five African countries are projected to be in the world’s top 10 countries by population by 2100. **8 India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country by 2027.** Meanwhile, Nigeria will surpass the U.S. as the third-largest country in the world in 2047, according to the projections. **9 Between 2020 and 2100, 90 countries are expected to lose population. **Two-thirds of all countries and territories in Europe (32 of 48) are expected to lose population by 2100. In Latin America and the Caribbean, half of the region’s 50 countries’ populations are expected to shrink. Between 1950 and 2020, by contrast, only six countries in the world lost population, due to much higher fertility rates and a relatively younger population in past decades. **10[](https://www.pewresearch.org/fact- tank/2019/06/17/worlds-population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the- end-of-the-century/ft_19-06-17_worldpopulation_by-2100-half-of-babies- worldwide-expected-to-be-born-africa/)Africa is projected to overtake Asia in births by 2060. ** Half of babies born worldwide are expected to be born in Africa by 2100, up from three-in-ten today. Nigeria is expected to have 864 million births between 2020 and 2100, the most of any African country. The number of births in Nigeria is projected to exceed those in China by 2070. Meanwhile, roughly a third of the world’s babies are projected to be born in Asia by the end of this century, down from about half today and from a peak of 65% in the 1965-70 period. **11[](https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds- population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the- century/ft_19-06-17_worldpopulation_latin-america-caribbean-had-one-of- youngest-populations-1950-by-2100-expected-to-have-oldest/)The Latin America and Caribbean region is expected to have the oldest population of any world region by 2100, a reversal from the 20th century. ** In 1950, the region’s median age was just 20 years. That figure is projected to more than double to 49 years by 2100. This pattern is evident when looking at individual countries in the region. For example, in 2020, the median ages of Brazil (33), Argentina (32) and Mexico (29) are all expected to be lower than the median age in the U.S. (38). However, by 2100, all three of these Latin American nations are projected to be older than the U.S. The median age will be 51 in Brazil, 49 in Mexico and 47 in Argentina, compared with a median age of 45 in the U.S. Colombia is expected to undergo a particularly stark transition, with its median age more than tripling between 1965 and 2100 – from 16 to 52. Japan is projected to have the highest median age of any country in the world in 2020, at 48 years old. Japan’s median age is expected to continue to rise until it peaks at 55 in 2065. It is expected to be lower in 2100 (54). By that time, the country with the highest median age is expected to be Albania, with a median age of 61. _Correction: This post has been updated to clarify that India is expected to become the world’s most populous country by 2027. By 2059, its population is projected to reach 1.7 billion._ _Note: The UN projections for the future population are based on assumptions about likely future changes in key demographic indicators, including fertility, life expectancy and migration. There is uncertainty regarding specific estimates. This analysis uses the medium variant for future dates, which takes the midpoint of likely outcomes. For more information, see the_[ _full UN report, data tables and methodology_](https://population.un.org/wpp/) _._
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2019-06-18 15:37:38+00:00
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freedombunker--2019-06-17--The UN Says World Population May Top Out at 109 Billion Before 2100 Other Demographers Say Itll
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The U.N. Says World Population May Top Out at 10.9 Billion Before 2100. Other Demographers Say It’ll Be Much Lower.
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In its 2017 World Population Prospects report, the United Nations projected that world population would reach 11.2 billion by 2100 and continue to grow from there. The U.N.'s new report, however, finds that while "a continued increase of the global population is considered the most likely outcome, there is roughly a 27 percent chance that the world's population could stabilize or even begin to decrease sometime before 2100." Why the change in projections? Because the global average fertility rate—which is the number of children each woman is expected to have over the course of her lifetime—is falling steeply. That rate stood at 5 per woman in 1960 and has now dropped by 2.5 per woman. Replacement fertility is generally defined as 2.1 children per woman. During the same era, global average life expectancy increased dramatically, from 52.5 years in 1960 to 72.6 years today. The U.N. demographers calculate that the bulk of future population growth over the remainder of this century will be concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, rising from just over 1 billion people today to nearly 3.8 billion by 2100. In contrast, populations in most of Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America will peak and begin declining before the end of this century. Demographer Wolfgang Lutz and his colleagues at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) believe that the United Nations' projections are likely to be too high. In their 2018 demographic assessment, IIASA calculates a medium fertility scenario that would see world population peak at 9.8 billion people at around 2080 and fall to 9.5 billion by 2100. The IIASA researchers argue that the U.N. does not take adequate account of the effects on fertility of increased levels of education, especially the schooling of girls and women. Alternatively, assuming rapid economic growth, technological advancement, and rising levels of educational attainment for both sexes—all factors that tend to lower fertility—Lutz and his colleagues project that world population will more likely peak at around 8.9 billion by 2060 and decline to 7.8 billion by the end of the twenty-first century. The global human population stands at about 7.7 billion now. Other global trends, such as steeply falling child mortality rates, increased urbanization, rising incomes, and the spread of political and economic freedom all strongly correlate with families choosing to have fewer children. Instead of having many children in the hope that a few might survive, more parents around the world now aim at providing their children with the skills and social capital that will enable them to flourish in a modern economy. The trend toward lower population growth is good news because it means that the global expansion of reproductive freedom is empowering more families to decide on how many children they wish to have.
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Ed Krayewski
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http://freedombunker.com/2019/06/17/the-u-n-says-world-population-may-top-out-at-10-9-billion-before-2100-other-demographers-say-itll-be-much-lower/
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2019-06-17 20:40:42+00:00
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liveaction--2019-02-13--Shock City zoning laws are forcing population control onto minorities
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Shock: City zoning laws are forcing population control onto minorities
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The population rate in the United States has sunk to its lowest number in decades. For the population of any country to be able to replace itself, 2,100 babies need to be born for every 1,000 women, for a replacement rate of 2.1; currently, the United States is reporting 1,765 births for every 1,000 women, far below replacement rate levels. While there have been numerous discussions on why this is happening, CityLab has exposed a disturbing new trend: in cities across the country, local politicians are using zoning laws to prevent families with children from moving in — and it’s disproportionately affecting Millennials and minorities. Banning day care centers and three-bedroom housing leaves families with few options Nolan Gray, an urban planning researcher, and Lyman Stone, an economist, outline multiple details showing how city planning officials are essentially creating what they call “vasectomy zoning,” as these policies encourage people to stop having children. “At the end of last year, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission weighed a proposed zoning change that would effectively ban new day-care centers—along with tire stores and car repair shops—in a large chunk of northwest Philadelphia,” they wrote, noting that the proposal appeared to be dead, but adding, “[T]he effort to block additional child-care facilities with a zoning overlay hints at a broader relationship between city planning and the cost of raising children.” Banning day-care centers is just the beginning. Gray and Stone note that Garwood, New Jersey — a suburb of New York City — adopted a plan with a complete ban on housing units with three or more bedrooms. Nutley, New Jersey likewise has a ban on three-bedroom housing. In New Jersey overall, this is apparently a trend. “[M]unicipalities increasingly meet their state-mandated fair-share affordable housing requirements by building only senior housing,” Gray and Stone wrote. “Affordable housing proposals that include three-bedroom units are rejected out of hand, leaving working families with few options.” Similar problems are happening in Massachusetts, where affordable housing construction has practically come to a halt. “In addition to simply limiting the number of development permits they issue, suburbs often forbid large apartments and townhomes altogether, while forcing detached homes to sit on large, prohibitively expensive lots,” they said, adding, “The combined result is that few new starter homes or family-sized rental units are successfully built. Meanwhile, rents and prices for the existing units sail beyond the means of most working families.” Minorities with larger families are forced into lower-quality communities and schools [W]e can now reliably say based on data that rising housing costs are preventing more and more women from having children. While jokes about avocado toast would have you believe that Millennials could afford homes if they could only change their spendthrift ways, the reality seems to work in reverse: High housing costs are likely forcing many young couples to make difficult lifestyle changes, such as delaying children. In a recent study for the Institute for Family Studies, Lyman finds that faster-rising rents are associated with lower fertility for women in their 20s and 30s, when most young couples would normally be starting families. The net effect of the high cost of housing is that more women are either putting off having children well past their peak family-formation years, or are simply not having the children they say they would like to have. There’s an even more disturbing aspect to these kinds of policies than just Millennials not being able to have children, however. According to the Census Bureau, the fertility rate has declined the most among white women, who are now having a minority of births in the country for the first time. In this context, minority women — who are having more babies — are effectively being shut out of communities, denied access to necessary support like day care, and are forced into low-income communities with lower quality schools and resources. Minority families in desperate situations are more likely to choose abortion When these minority families, who are disproportionately likely to struggle with poverty, are shut out of communities with family-friendly resources and affordable housing, what are they more likely to turn to? Abortion. This is especially problematic, considering how the abortion industry preys on and then mistreats minority women. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion chain, was found in a Live Action undercover investigation to be willing to accept donations when asked if the money could specifically go towards aborting Black babies. They likewise have been found to pressure black women into sterilization. And according to Protecting Black Life, Planned Parenthood facilities are overwhelmingly placed within walking distance of black or Hispanic neighborhoods. The Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood’s former research arm, likewise relays some horrifying statistics regarding abortion and minority women. Black women, who currently make up just 13% of the population, account for 28% of abortions. Hispanic women make up 18% of the populations, but 25% of abortions. In cities like New York, the majority of babies aborted are Black and Hispanic, and more black babies are aborted than are born. READ: Planned Parenthood supporter and abortionists agree: Abortion is good because it eliminates minorities This is, without a doubt, a method of population control. Re-zoning laws are the least likely way one might assume that minority and poor women could be convinced to not have children, but that is exactly what is happening. The analysis written by Stone and Gray for City Lab pointed out that many of the people who are not having children aren’t doing so because they don’t want to; it’s because they feel like they have no other option. Women aren’t choosing abortion because they just flippantly feel like getting rid of their babies. They don’t enter abortion facilities cheerily thinking they’re exercising their “choice.” Women turn to abortion because they believe they have no choice — and too many city officials are reinforcing that belief. More initiatives need to be launched to encourage, not discourage, families, with family-friendly zoning laws, affordable housing, and resources. It’s ludicrous that there are places in this country that day care and three-bedroom apartments are being shut down, and stopping these kinds of outrageous policies is imperative for pro-lifers. As long as they continue to spread, abortion will continue as well. “Like” Live Action News on Facebook for more pro-life news and commentary!
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Cassy Fiano-Chesser
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https://www.liveaction.org/news/city-zoning-population-control-minorities/
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2019-02-13 16:06:39+00:00
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liveaction--2019-02-24--Why the idea of overpopulation should not be used to justify abortion
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Why the idea of overpopulation should not be used to justify abortion
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When it comes to abortion, it’s not uncommon for people to claim it’s actually necessary in society. One of these excuses is overpopulation. The world is getting too crowded, we will soon run out of room, and there will be too many people for the planet to support, they claim — abortion, therefore, is touted as a force for social good, preventing the overcrowding of the planet. In fact, Tucker Carlson recently interviewed the president of the Sierra Club, who said this is the very reason why the group supports abortion. But are any of these claims about overpopulation true? This is a term used to describe what happens when the existing number of human beings exceeds the carrying capacity for the planet Earth. In theory, too many people will put too much strain on our resources, leading to worldwide famine and death. These fears have led to population control policies which, in turn, have led to human rights abuses in numerous countries, most notably China, with its horrific One-Child (now Two-Child) Policy. That the Earth’s human population is at an all-time high only serves to further bolster fears that there are too many people. According to those who believe we are overpopulated, this is why we need abortion. To them, it shouldn’t matter if a woman wants an abortion, because there are already too many people on the planet, and abortion is ‘fixing the problem.’ This reasoning has led multiple leaders of western countries to attempt to push population control in Africa, discouraging large families while others argue in favor of forcible sterilization. There’s just one problem with this line of thinking: overpopulation is a myth. Watch: According to the Population Research Institute, the United Nations Population Division estimates that the world’s population will peak shortly — and then begin decreasing. Why? Because the global total fertility rate is plummeting. Fewer people are being born, and as the global population ages, the population of the planet will decrease, as more people die than are born. The World Bank’s fertility data shows that the overwhelming majority of countries have drastically lower fertility rates than they did in 1960. The idea that overpopulation will lead to a lack of food is problematic because is there actually is enough food, but people sometimes don’t have access to it, often due to corrupt or incompetent governments. Natural disasters, poverty, and war also lead to starvation — none of which are due to overpopulation. Advancements in farming and agriculture, however, now allow for the production of more food using less land. The fact is, there isn’t an issue of too many people leading to too little food. The truth? Fertility rates are dropping to disastrous levels The real problem right now is that people are not having enough children. Many countries are currently experiencing a “baby bust”, with insufficient children being born to replace aging populations. This has led to several countries, like Denmark, Italy, Germany, Hungary and Norway, giving parents incentives to have more children. In many European and Asian countries, there could soon be catastrophic consequences to their low fertility rates, far below replacement levels, as there will not be enough workers to support the elderly population as they retire. The United States is not far behind, either; the fertility rate is the lowest in 30 years. Some may think it isn’t a problem if the world’s population declines; after all, that keeps us further away from overpopulation, right? But low fertility rates lead to numerous problems. As mentioned, when there are more elderly people in a country than there are younger people working, large financial problems result, and the younger workers find themselves forced to work longer hours and retire later in life — which also tends to make these younger people feel that they cannot have children of their own. READ: Fertility rate of U.S. women plummets to lowest level in 30 years China and India both serve as heartbreaking examples of what happens when population control is enforced in the name of preventing overpopulation. Both countries are struggling with epidemics of loneliness and depression, and China specifically has the highest suicide rate of women in the world. Human rights abuses, like human trafficking, prostitution, and crime, have skyrocketed as people struggle to find women to marry. Economic consequences abound too, as people frequently hoard their money in hopes of one day being able to afford a home to impress future brides, instead of spending it and stimulating the economy. Labor markets, consumption, and property values have become distorted. “It’s kind of an arms race in the dating and marriage market,” Shang-Jin Wei, a Columbia University economist, said to the Washington Post. And due to gender preferences in China and India, men outnumber women by 70 million. “In the future, there will be millions of men who can’t marry, and that could pose a very big risk to society,” Li Shuzhuo, a leading demographer at Xi’an Jiaotong University, said in the same feature for the Washington Post. In short, encouraging people to stop having children leads to disastrous results. Overpopulation has long been disproven, while what the world truly needs is more babies. Yet people continue to use this myth as an excuse for abortion — an idea that needs to finally, once and for all, die. “Like” Live Action News on Facebook for more pro-life news and commentary!
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Cassy Fiano-Chesser
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https://www.liveaction.org/news/overpopulation-justification-abortion/
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2019-02-24 14:47:26+00:00
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liveaction--2019-02-27--Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezs population control ideas wont save Earth
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Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s population control ideas won’t save Earth
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On Sunday evening, freshman Congresswoman from New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attempted to drum up support for her “Green New Deal” during an Instagram Live broadcast in which she raised an ominous question with radical population control undertones. “Our planet is going is going to have a disaster if we don’t turn this ship around,” she said. “There’s scientific consensus that lives of children are going to be very difficult. And it does lead, I think, young people to have a legitimate question: is it okay to still have children? […] Just this basic moral question, like what do we do?” Ocasio-Cortez is alluding to the grim predictions in the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which warned of “genocide,” global food insecurity, as well as dire economic outcomes. Ocasio-Cortez’s question — and her implied answer — reflects an increasingly common refrain among public figures and institutions that assert that aggressive population control, including universal and easy access to abortion, is one of the most effective ways to solve climate change. This ideology has even led some governments to use brutal and extreme measures to control their populations, like the horrific practices of forced abortion and family size limits in China. In the United States, such thinking is reflected in major initiatives like massive government funding for abortion pushed by House Democrats, many of whom also co-sponsored Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, on the very first day of the new Congress. Ideas like those of Ocasio-Cortez’s would likely promote and fund radical pro-abortion policies, even as actual data indicates that fertility rates in many countries are already dangerously low. The US population recently plummeted to a 30-year low, with rates reported by the CDC to be 16% below replacement levels. Sub-replacement fertility levels have the potential to pose severe economic problems as the numbers of retired citizens drawing pensions grows to be too large for the much smaller number of younger workers paying in to government pensions. Such dependency ratios, once they reach a certain level, can lead to economic collapse. This would cripple the ability of future generations to fund major initiatives proposed by people like Ocasio-Cortez. READ: Half the world’s population is below replacement level, but the UN wants population control In the great overpopulation scare of the 1970s, prominent academics and public figures issued dire warnings of imminent starvation and scarcity. Those overpopulation pessimists were proven wrong, thanks to human ingenuity in agriculture and technology that made these ideas a fiction even as the world’s population grew. The average person during this decade has just 0.006 times the risk of dying in a famine as he or she would have had in the 1960s. Where food security is a problem, more often than not the culprits are corrupt and incompetent governments. As Dr. Jacqueline Kesun points out in The War Against Population, “The world’s food problem does not arise from any physical limitation on potential output or any danger of unduly stressing the environment. The limitations on abundance are to be found in the social and political structures of nations.” There may yet be scalable and economically viable measures that can be enacted by future generations. Ridding of the planet of people by whatever means is not a solution to climate change. “Like” Live Action News on Facebook for more pro-life news and commentary!
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Laura Nicole
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https://www.liveaction.org/news/ocasio-cortez-population-control-earth/
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2019-02-27 14:37:03+00:00
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liveaction--2019-09-05--Teslas Elon Musk Population collapse not overpopulation is biggest problem facing world
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Tesla’s Elon Musk: ‘Population collapse’ (not overpopulation) is ‘biggest problem’ facing world
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(LifeSiteNews) – The “biggest problem” facing the world is not population explosion, but “population collapse,” said Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk. Musk made the comment in a live-streamed debate with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. chairman Jack Ma in at the August 29 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. When Ma reflected on the low birth rate in China — which formerly had a one-child policy but now has a two-child policy — Musk agreed that there is a “birth rate” problem. “Most people think we have too many people on the planet, but actually this is an outdated view,” said Musk. “Assuming that AI (artificial intelligence) is fine — we’re assuming there’s a benevolent future with AI — I think the biggest problem the world will face in 20 years is population collapse,” he continued. “Collapse: I want to emphasize this. The biggest issue in 20 years will be population collapse, not explosion, collapse,” he added. Ma said in response: “I absolutely agree with that, the population will be facing a huge challenge.” Musk said the “accelerating collapse” will not be able to be checked by immigration. “The common rebuttal is: ‘Well, what about immigration?’” he said. Demographers have for years already been warning Western countries with below replacement-level birth rates about what some call the “demographic winter” as a result of the decline. In such a collapse, the old outnumber the young, creating severe imbalances. Economies suffer. Some could even crash. The result could negatively impact, and could prove detrimental, to some of the main infrastructures — such as financial systems and healthcare — that contribute to living in a western democracy. Population Research Institute president Steven Mosher said Musk’s comments on population collapse are accurate. “An old-age tsunami is hitting not just the West and China, but all of humanity. China is now facing a demographic repression caused by the wanton elimination of 400 million people. So will the world as a whole in decades to come. Elon Musk is right,” he told LifeSiteNews. Mosher said that governments should follow Hungary’s example where pro-family policies are making it easier for young people to marry and have children. Some of these measures include massive tax breaks for families, housing programs, interest-free loans for married couples, and many other incentives, all geared toward encouraging Hungarians to have children. “People should be advocating for robust, very robust pro-natal policies,” he said. Mosher noted that it is also “God advice,” as can be found in the Bible, that babies are a blessing. And, he added, it turns out that this advice is true “even in our secular age.” “Scripture tells us that babies are blessings and not burdens. And they’re blessings for everybody. They’re blessings for their family, for the parents, for their community, for their society, for the economy, and for the nation as a whole. So, I think that if people kept that scriptural perspective in mind, they’d be better: they themselves would be better off, and their countries would be better off in the long run,” he said. This is not the first time Musk has warned about population collapse. In a July 2017 tweet, Musk noted that the world’s population is “accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care.” His comment was in relation to a November 2016 New Scientist article titled “The world in 2076: The population bomb has imploded” that projected a measured decline of global population over the next 60 years, because half of the countries in the world have fertility rates below the replacement rate. The replacement fertility rate is 2.1 children per woman. Most developed countries are far below this. Musk also told CCCMoney in a March 2017 interview that people “should be concerned about demographic implosion.” “So if you look at countries like Japan, most of Europe, China,” Musk said, “and you look at the birth rates, in a lot of those places it is only at about half of the sustaining rate.” He described an inverted demographic pyramid, where older people are on top who are not able to be sustained by the too few numbers of young people beneath them. “So it will sort of fall over,” he said, “it will not stand.” Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at LifeSiteNews and is reprinted here with permission. “Like” Live Action News on Facebook for more pro-life news and commentary!
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Pete Baklinski
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https://www.liveaction.org/news/musk-population-collapse-problem/
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2019-09-05 12:16:13+00:00
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prepareforchange--2019-08-04--What is the State of the Global Depopulation Program
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What is the State of the Global Depopulation Program?
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After the end of World War II, a covert plan to cull the world’s population was put into action. This plan intends to vastly reduce the number of humans on Earth down to as few as 500,000 people. Throughout the last 15 years, we’ve learned about the global depopulation program. This program was established in the 1940s in an effort to get rid of as many people as possible. The reason for wanting to depopulate the Earth is not yet clear, but there is consensus among well-informed researchers that we are indeed being killed softly and without notice. While many researchers believe the elite’s decision was based on their assessment of future overcrowding and how this would endanger ourselves and the planet, equally in-depth independently gathered information points to a desire to use humanity as a commodity that could later be disposed of. Since the depopulation program is widely known, one question that should concern us all is, what is the state of this program as we have entered the second decade of the 21st century? The answer to this questions is that the depopulation program is running in very advanced stages. The West, led by the United States, has implemented a series of policies with the sole intent to drastically reducing human numbers in an attempt to curb what many believe is an out of control population growth. The fact that reproduction rates are out of control is still also debatable, but researchers are now giving more attention to educating the masses about the reality of global depopulation so that they can take matters into their own hands. In a recent interview with Kevin Galalae, an author and historian who often contributes to this publication, he provided some insight about the progression of the global depopulation program. Mr. Galalae, who has been writing a series of articles on the topic for The Real Agenda News, has alerted us that the policies that govern the plan to reduce human numbers on Earth are progressing rapidly. According to him, the elite are using methods that are more and more invasive because the previous ones they adopted are no longer keeping up with their expectations. Mr. Galalae, believes that the elite understood overpopulation as a time bomb and decided to secretly get rid of us, as supposed to educate us about the urgent need to consciously keep our numbers under control. The latest addition to the global depopulation program is planetary geo-engineering also known as climatic geo-engineering. This tool, originally begun to be used in the 1940s as a way to wage weather warfare. However, not too long after, governments realized that controlling the weather would be synonymous of controlling their enemies. Today, humanity is the main enemy of the elite, it has always been. We are all that stands between them and their goal of getting human numbers to as little as 500 million people. While discussing about depopulation efforts conducted by the elite, I realized that perhaps the elite had miscalculated. Perhaps humanity has overcome their lies to learn the truth. So I decided to ask Mr. Galalae about the progress of their agenda. Luis Miranda: According to your best knowledge, 68 years ago or so, the elite attempted to reduce human population by secretly using chemical and biological weapons. They projected that this plan would reduce population considerably. By how much? Kevin Galalae: At first, in the early fifties, the objective was to merely halt population growth and to do so they focused entirely on undermining human fertility to reduce the total fertility rate (TFR) of every country to replacement level. The implications of this move were not foreseen. It was not realized that this would set in motion a demographic transition that will result in population profiles characterized by inverted pyramids and therefore the burden the old would place on the productive members of society would become unbearable and collapse the social systems of developed countries, eating away at the affluence gained by previous generations. They did not realize that once you start engineering small families you end up having to kill the old before they bankrupt society. They did not realize the mindboggling economic, social, cultural, political, ethical, moral, and medical ramifications of interfering with the human reproductive system. No one knew where it would all lead. No one could foresee. Luis Miranda: If the depopulation program has not had the results that the elite expected, when will it reach that point? Kevin Galalae: There were no timetables at first. There was no long-term plan that glimpsed decades into the future. The knowledge for such a plan and the foresight, as well as the statistical data and computing power that enabled long-term projections were non-existent. At its inception and until the 1970s the international community led by the US and the USSR was merely engaged in a desperate attempt to deal with the devastating aftermath of World War II and to prevent a repeat of history, which would now end in assured mutual annihilation due to thedevelopment of nuclear weapons. Until the Nixon administration the population control timetable has always been dictated by the need to stay ahead of the always impending famine and resource scarcity and to do so they realized they would have to globalize the economy to facilitate the transfer of goods and services across national frontiers so as to better respond to crises situations and to better spread the benefits of development. That is when globalization began. And that is when an aggressive depopulation program became inevitable. Why? Because once they crunched the numbers it became clear as daylight that the planet could only support at most one billion people at the standard of living North Americans had become accustomed to and America always insisted on protecting its way of life, as have all other affluent countries and people throughout history. To this day, the optimal number of people the earth can support remains a political decision that is yet to be made and that is being and will continue to be dictated by the lifestyle we want to have as a species. Peaceful coexistence dictates that to avoid armed conflict we must share the wealth globally without distinction of race or nationality or religion. Globalization enables us to share the earth’s resources without prejudice and to attain global prosperity. It forces us to move in tandem and in peace towards an affluent global civilization. But to achieve this goal we have no choice but to arrest and reverse our numbers. How many human beings will live on the planet will be dictated by how well we want to live, by how many resources we want to have at our disposal per capita, and on how much the earth can give us without destabilizing its ecosystems. With the current technology, my estimate is that the earth cannot sustain more than one billion people. Luis Miranda: How successful has the plan been? Are the efforts keeping up with the rate of reproduction? In other words, if the plan is kept up, will human population peak at 9 billion in 2040? If not, will it peak in 2050 or 2060? Kevin Galalae: It has been an uphill battle, the greatest battle humanity has ever engaged in, as we have taken on the mightiest natural enemies, the urge to procreate and the instinct to survive. Every target set in the past to lower the TFR of all countries on earth has been missed. To this day, many countries have yet to get there, India being the most populous on this list. The chemical, biological, psychosocial and economic methods, both covert and overt, employed thus far have been only partially successful. That is why GMOs have been developed. GMOs represent the last straw, the last hope of the international community to halt and reverse human population covertly. Judging by the global resistance against GMOs and by the fact that I have exposed the Global Depopulation Policy, the plan will not succeed. That is why policy makers and world leaders need to show courage and stand united in front of the world to announce and implement a global and universal one-child policy for the next three generations or until our numbers are sufficiently low to reestablish balance with nature. Absent such leadership to bring the depopulation effort into the open we are facing disaster and global conflict. Luis Miranda: Why do you consider citing this projection made by the elite as a fallacy? Is it because it won’t happen or because people use it as if it will be the result of affluence and development? Kevin Galalae: The latter. What is a fallacy is the notion that low fertility rates and small families are the natural result of development and affluence. This is a myth that was created to hide the fact that low fertility rates and small families are the result of covert population control methods: fluoride, BPA, vaccines, HIV/AIDS, artificial scarcity caused by deliberate economic manipulation, eugenic laws, and a battery of psychosocial methods designed to undermine the family. Overpopulation deniers, however, use this myth to demonstrate that there is no need for population control because the global population is stabilizing on its own at 9 billion. Overpopulation deniers do not realize that the reason the population will stabilize at 9 billion is because the international community employs a battery of covert methods to undermine human fertility and the family unit and that they have done so in strict secrecy since 1945. The international community (UN, WHO, IMF, WB, etc.) and the military-industrial complex (especially that of the US, UK and Russia) – the brain and the arm of the globalization/depopulation policy – who have been in control of the secret depopulation program, are prevented from setting overpopulation denies straight by the continuing need to keep the myth alive, a myth which they have created to conceal the truth. Luis Miranda: Many well-informed people who cite the figure of 9 billion are aware of the elite’s plan to exterminate many of us. They reference the data because they have read it in globalist white papers, speeches, etc. Kevin Galalae: The data in globalist white papers is attributed to affluence/development so as to hide the true reason of low fertility rates, which are the covert methods I describe in my books and articles. The need to proceed in secret with depopulation measures has begot deception to bypass democratic processes and the rule of law. Government and the international community now exist primarily to hide the truth and break the law for that is the only way they can eliminate the vast majority of genetic lines alive today. Luis Miranda: Knowledgeable people also cite the population peak of 9 billion to make people aware that despite the fact that the elite has planned to exterminate many of us and that the elite’s projection was to have a stable population by 2040, they still continue advancing stronger measures of depopulation. Kevin Galalae: The reason they advance ever stronger methods of depopulation is because the methods they have employed so far have not been sufficient to reach the desperate goals previously set, goals that have only become more desperate. Desperate times call for desperate measure. Now we are in do or die time. We no longer have a buffer time, which is why they are going for broke; hence the chemtrails, the GMOs and, soon, pandemic-causing viruses. Luis Miranda: Could we say that these well informed people have failed to explain to the public that the elite are using more aggressive measures because their initial projection is not going to come to fruition? Kevin Galalae: Yes, this is indeed the case. In addition, the environmental impact has become critical. Also critical are the social and economic strains, due to overcrowding and the need to share the same economic pie with an ever growing number of people, which means that each individual pie is shrinking from year to year, have compelled the authorities to unleash a new generation of population control methods; methods that are far more effective and far less subtle and that can only be forced on us by a police state and police state controls. They do this not because they like or want tyranny but because we are facing collapse. They reckon that a pre-emptive strike will prevent chaos. They reckon that controlled population annihilation is preferable to the global disintegration of civilization into mayhem, which is what will happen if nothing is done. And while they are right that doing something, however brutal, is better than doing nothing; they are wrong in choosing to go over our heads and against our will and at our cost only. Humankind is better and smarter than they give us credit for. We are capable of taking control of the depopulation effort. We can do it legally and openly with the cooperation of the vast majority of people on earth, which will make the depopulation effort humane and far more effective and will preserve and strengthen the best traits of human nature, as well as our dignity, the intellectual and genetic endowment of humanity, and our rights and freedoms. The OM Principles show how to protect our children, our planet, our dignity, and our humanity while at the same time accomplishing the hard targets imposed by the existential threats we face. What stands in the way of the alternative I provide is a crisis of leadership at the top and a crisis of participation at the bottom. What stands in the way is a general crisis of conscience. Once people understood that there was a real effort going on to drastically reduce population numbers, they had to cope with the latest weapon used by the elite to carry out mass depopulation. The Global Climate Geo-engineering Program that is being carried out by the elite is perhaps the most effective of all tools they have ever employed. Why? Because different from vaccines, GMOs and other methods used before, spraying the skies with toxic chemicals so people are sistematically poisoned, is something no one can escape from. We all need to breath, don’t we? One man who has been in the search for answers about Global Climate Geo-engineering for at least two decades is Dane Wigington. Mr. Wigington is well-known in the alternative media movement for his in-depth presentations about what many people call ‘chemtrails’ or chemical trails, which in reality are a form of geo-engineering. The elite has been in the business -there are patents and people are making money of it- for decades and they are not about to stop spraying the skies with their heavy metals just because we’ve found out. For over 70 years, planetary geo-engineering has gone from being a dream of the elite to becoming a reality. The problem is that it has cost humanity more than anyone believed. According to Mr. Wigington’s research, climate geo-engineering has caused and continues to cause climate related disruptions, many of which are intended to bring down whole nations or at times certain areas of the planet. Global Climate Geo-engineering is responsible for extreme drought, ozone depletion, excessive methane release, drastic reduction in arctic sea ice, global oxygen content reductions, oceans on the brink of collapse, massive fish die offs, the extinction of at least 200 different species a day, a drastic rise in Autism, Alzheimer’s, and Dementia, the reduction of forests worldwide, the sterilization of soils, making it impossible for plants to grow without Monsanto’s aluminum resistant seeds, and yes global warming. Mr. Wigington backs up his statements with solid data obtained from NOAA, NASA, patent documentation, which can be found on his website geoengineeringwatch.org. “The debate over whether geo-engineering programs are going on is now a moot point. We have more than enough data to confirm it. We have actual footage showing tankers spraying. The materials showing up on the ground are exactly the same materials mentioned in the numerous geo-engineering patents and documents,” says Wigington. “Our atmosphere is nothing but a massive physics lab to geo-engineering scientists who have no concern whatsoever about the consequences to humanity or any living thing, including themselves. The experiments are literally tearing the planet apart and destroying life on earth.” Mr. Wigington recently explained in a conference in California that there is no such a thing as natural weather anymore. The elite behind the depopulation program are now capable of keeping large areas of the planet in drought while drowning the land across the continent by making it rain uncontrollably. Climate Engineering Weather Warfare, and the Collapse of Civilization The government’s covert use of deadly and dangerous Geo-engineering practices, which supposedly attempt to reduce global warming by artificially modifying the Earth’s climate systems through the reduction of solar radiation and the removal of Carbon Dioxide is seriously threatening life on Earth. That is the conclusion Dane Wigington has come to after conducting deep research into the ways that the chemicals sprayed over us are changing the environment. Along with Mr. Wigington’s research, documentaries such as What in the World are they Spraying and Why in the World are They Spraying have shed even more light into the Global Geo-engineering Program. These documentaries provide scientific commentary and evidence about the toxic effects of such programs on human life and the negative impact on eco-systems and weather patterns. Global geo-engineering programs are literally ripping the atmosphere apart and changing climate patterns more rapidly out of control. Earth’s life support systems is also being decimated. The lethally toxic fallout from these same programs is poisoning every breath we take, and the entire web of life. If you think this sounds absurd, or impossible, take the time to examine the evidence yourself. The very essentials needed to sustain life on earth are being recklessly destroyed by these programs. This is not a topic that will begin to affect us in several years, but is now already causing massive animal and plant die off around the world, as well as human illness. A tool for blowing the Global Climate Geo-engineering Cover up Open A new initiative based documentary called Look up raises awareness about the current threat that Climate Geo-engineering poses to planet Earth. Whether the elite began using geo-engineering to curb global warming or are doing solely to cull the global population is not important anymore. Either way, humanity and the rest of the species are being exterminated in the process. Look Up , the film directed by George Barnes, won the Hamptons Film Festival 2013, the AFI World Peace Best Environmental Short Film, the 2013 Action On Film Festival’s Best Documentary Short award, and the 2013 International Film Festival for Peace. Perhaps part of its success is related to the fact the film comes accompanied by a mobile application called SyderAlert, which mobile phone users can download and use to document weather geo-engineering as it happens. The video captured by witnesses can then be sent to government representatives. The mobile application capture visual evidence of the potentially catastrophic activity, allows users to create petitions against it, and sends the evidence directly to the appropriate representative. Users can have their video automatically geo-located to ensure that the appropriate elected officials are selected. The genocidal depopulation plan generally involves poisoning or sterilizing people through the use of chem. trails or water fluoridation. Agribusinesses transnational like Monsanto are often implicated in some sort of scheme to monopolize the world’s food supply so it can be easily tainted with deadly toxins. Just about anything that can be said to involve “chemicals” can be implicated in this nefarious scheme: vaccines, alleged covert geo-engineering schemes, genetically modified food, etc. Variants of the theory include those with an anti-abortion tinge who incorporate conspiracy theories about Planned Parenthood, and AIDS conspiracy theorists who believe AIDS was concocted in a laboratory for the purpose of reducing the population. Another variant, largely attributable to Lyndon La Roche, has worldwide nuclear war as part of the conspirators’ alleged plan along with a deliberate economic collapse and de-industrialization to force the world back into a “new dark age.” Disclaimer: We at Prepare for Change (PFC) bring you information that is not offered by the mainstream news, and therefore may seem controversial. The opinions, views, statements, and/or information we present are not necessarily promoted, endorsed, espoused, or agreed to by Prepare for Change, its leadership Council, members, those who work with PFC, or those who read its content. However, they are hopefully provocative. Please use discernment! Use logical thinking, your own intuition and your own connection with Source, Spirit and Natural Laws to help you determine what is true and what is not. By sharing information and seeding dialogue, it is our goal to raise consciousness and awareness of higher truths to free us from enslavement of the matrix in this material realm.
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Edward Morgan
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https://prepareforchange.net/2019/08/04/what-is-the-state-of-the-global-depopulation-program/
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2019-08-04 18:17:28+00:00
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realclearpolitics--2019-05-29--A Declining Population Need Not Cause Angst
| 2019-05-29T00:00:00 |
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A Declining Population Need Not Cause Angst
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Total births in the United States fell last year to about 3.79 million, the smallest number in 32 years. The fertility rate hit a record low of 59 childbirths per 1,000 women. Americans are not having enough children to replace themselves. This supposedly is bad news. Headlines are crying about a "Shortage of Americans" and "Demographic Decline." I don't know. There seem to be plenty of Americans to go around. If population growth were the mark of national greatness, Oman, Equatorial Guinea and Angola would be the stars. Of course, a sharply falling population would be cause for concern, but that's not the situation here. The United States has been below the replacement level of 2.1 births per woman for decades. The total continues to grow because of immigration. Fewer workers, we are told, can be problematic for an aging society. An expanding elderly population needs more taxpayers to support its health care and, in many cases, more caregivers to make meals. This is true, but these demographics were totally predictable. It's odd to see handwringing over the need for more tax revenues shortly after our leadership pushed through deep tax cuts that will drain the Treasury of said revenues. As for who will fill caregiving jobs, the answer may be those whose previous work was taken over by robots. And if caregiving pays too low to attract workers, the answer is to pay more. Meanwhile, there are nuggets of very good news embedded in the U.S. population numbers. The birthrate among teens and unmarried women has plummeted. More women are having children when they're older and, presumably, better able to support them. Also interesting, women with college degrees are having more children. And thank you, Affordable Care Act, for making birth control, especially the long-acting kind, more available to women. That, not abortion, is behind the drop in unwanted pregnancies. Abortions are now at their lowest number and rate since around 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Roe v. Wade. Some causes of falling births were expected. The birthrate among Hispanic women -- once high relative to the rest of the population -- is now more in line with that of other groups. Fewer Americans would be a welcome relief for those living in our highly congested urban corridors. One can argue that America's big, open spaces provide room galore for a far bigger population, but somehow natives and the foreign-born alike choose to shoehorn into densely populated areas. Sadly, the habit of associating a dipping headcount with decline still plagues city leaders unable to deal with the numbers they already have. New York Mayor Bill De Blasio was so upset by the census report showing that his city's population shrunk by 40,000 -- a mere drop in a sea of 8.4 million souls -- that he questioned its methodology. At rush hour, some of the subway trains get so overcrowded the doors won't close because passengers can't get their hands and legs inside. And we can light a candle for the drivers consigned to the flames of perpetual gridlock. Some take falling birthrates as a sign of lost confidence in the future. But those fretting about the millennials' lack of enthusiasm for reproducing might investigate deeper. They might start addressing the onerous burden of student debt. Babies are expensive. They might look into today's crazy work schedules and, for those without college degrees or specialized skills, low pay. There was a time when parents could come home at 5:30 in the afternoon. What makes for a strong society is healthy people, prosperous people and happy people -- not more people. Americans can put low birthrates at the bottom of their worry list.
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<a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/froma_harrop" data-mce-href="../../authors/froma_harrop">Froma Harrop</a>, Seattle Times
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/28/a_declining_population_need_not_cause_angst_140422.html
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2019-05-29 02:33:07+00:00
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sottnet--2019-01-07--Chinas population forecasted to reach 14 billion by 2029 before starting unstoppable decline
| 2019-01-07T00:00:00 |
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China's population forecasted to reach 1.4 billion by 2029 before starting 'unstoppable decline'
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China's population is set to reach a peak of 1.442 billion in 2029 and start a long period of "unstoppable" decline in 2030, government scholars said in a research report published on Friday.The world's most populous countryaccording to the summary of the latest edition of the "Green Book of Population and Labor" published by the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).Growth in the working population had now stagnated, the report said, and the rising number of elderly people will have a far-reaching impact on the social and economic development in the country, especially if fertility rates remain low."From a theoretical point of view, the long-term population decline, especially when it is accompanied by a continuously ageing population, is bound to cause very unfavourable social and economic consequences," it said.China's population is expected to fall back to 1.36 billion by the middle of the century, it said, which could mean a decline in the workforce of as much as 200 million. If fertility rates remain unchanged, the population could fall to 1.17 billion by 2065, it said.aimed at curbing population growth and allow all couples to have two children. However, the country's birth rate still fell 3.5 percent in 2017 and is expected to have fallen again last year.China's- or the proportion of non-working people, including children and the elderly, in the total population -, and is widely predicted to increase further for at least the next few decades.The proportion of retirees is projected to rise until 2060, the CASS report said, and while the decision to relax "one-child" rules was designed to rebalance China's age structure, in the short term it will also lead to a greater dependency rate.According to previous forecasts, China's elderly population is expected to reach 400 million by the end of 2035, up from around 240 million last year.
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https://www.sott.net/article/404354-Chinas-population-forecasted-to-reach-1-4-billion-by-2029-before-starting-unstoppable-decline
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2019-01-07 17:36:26+00:00
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sottnet--2019-05-07--Leftish apocalyptic environmentalism and the ideology of overpopulation
| 2019-05-07T00:00:00 |
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Leftish apocalyptic environmentalism and the ideology of overpopulation
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Gregory Barrett's rant against childbearing in Dissident Voice repeats a similar admonition by the author a year before in the same publication. Barrett, who now regrets having his two daughters, finds 2019 to be just as bad as 2018 to have offspring.While Barrett's article includes repeated references to his own thought, there is only one hyperlink to evidence purporting to support his view about "near-term human extinction" caused by the fertility of women. The cited report does not, in fact, support Barrett's argument, but rather supports this response to his essay. The report concludes : "We can no longer ignore the impact of current unsustainable production models and wasteful lifestyles." That is, population numbers are not the fundamental problem, but capitalist relations of production and consumption are.Barrett's complaint is encapsulated in the title of his article : "Doctrinaire left lines up with Trumpists, calls overpopulation 'myth': humans über alles...to the bitter end." Barrett does not identify the "doctrinaire left," though presumably those who read and publish in Dissident Voice are included. Nor does he provide evidence of the left lining up with so-called Trumpists.Trump did suspend US contributions to the UN Population Fund . But it was because Trump opposed women's reproductive freedom including access to abortion. In contrast, women's reproductive choice is an issue long supported by the left.While there are overpopulation theory proponents on the left, the theory has its origins and greatest publicists in bourgeois political thought.This ideological initiative in the service of international capital took place in the context of a wave of third world national liberation struggles in the post-war period. Peasant tillers of the soil were demanding land reform; workers were demanding just compensation.Let the people have their rightful means to land and livelihood, and they will take care of their own contraceptive needs. Where the standard of living and educational level of a population rises, especially for women, birthrates plummet Overpopulation theory claims, as Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster observes , "that all of the crucial problems of bourgeois society and indeed of the world could be traced to over-procreation on the part of the poor." Accordingly, Barrett warns that the "vast numbers of humans on our planet may be killing it," without distinguishing between the perpetrators and the victims.. Friends of the Earth reports , "People in rich countries consume up to 10 times more natural resources than those in the poorest countries." If we do have an over-population problem, it is too many too rich people depleting too many resources.The earth and its resources are undeniably finite, but currently there is more than enough food to meet the caloric needs of the world's population. Hunger exists in the world and even in the US,Over the last century, world population increased four times. However, world resource consumption increased over 20-fold, suggesting that even at zero population growth consumption of resources would still have grown over 500%.It is not population growth itself, nor even total human consumption,. These are determined not by the absolute numbers of humans but by the political economy imposed on them.It is instructive to compare climate change theory to overpopulation theory. Climate change predictions are based on science in contrast to the quackery of overpopulation theory. Scientific climate models provide clear quantitative benchmarks for when anthropogenic climate warming became a dominant factor, what level of COin the atmosphere should be targeted, and when this needs to be achieved.In contrast, the overpopulation theorists do not posit a time when there weren't too many humans. Instead, they base their simplistic plea that there are too many people in the world based on prejudice against the fertility of women of color (see also Sasser ), which has its antecedents in racist and classist eugenics When did the earth become overpopulated according to overpopulation theory? In 1798, Thomas Malthus, a seminal overpopulation theorist, wrote his Essay on the Principle of Population in opposition to the English Poor Laws. Malthus posited a "natural law" for population to increase beyond the means of subsistence.Malthus, as do modern-day proponents of overpopulation theory, do not contend that the earth will become over-populated in the future.As Friedrich Engels wrote in 1844, according to the logic of Malthus' theory "the earth was already over-populated when only one man existed."While climate scientists have empirically predicted the deleterious effects of global warming, the overpopulation ideologues have a consistent record of crying wolf. Take perhaps the leading and most respected overpopulation proponent in the US, Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb , who predicted in print:Overpopulation theory has discredited itself as fake science by its own false predictions. Unrepentant, Ehrlich claims that his critics are "idiots," he "never made predictions," and he only made the "mistake" of presenting "scenarios."This is not to imply that population growth is not an important issue. Only from an environmental point-of-view, it needs to be coupled with an understanding of the social relations that generate patterns of consumption and distribution.Barrett, who calls himself a "refugee," could learn from the example of his adopted home in Germany, which is experiencing negative population growth . Germany is an example of a society where, to a significant degree, women have freedom of reproductive choice, improved equality, and a relatively secure standard of living. The lesson being that a society that provides for people's material and social needs, especially those of women, results in lower birth rates.In contrast, Syria, which is benighted by a US-backed regime-change war, has the world's highest birthrate of 7.37%. High fertility rates in such conflict zones may be understood as products of dysfunctional social relations. That is, high fertility rates are a symptom not the cause of social and environmental problems.The ideology of overpopulation serves to divert criticisms of capitalist social relations of unequal distribution. Wasteful and environmentally destructive economic mis-planning invariably results from those social relations. Barrett exemplifies the phenomenon of the uncritical acceptance of such bourgeois ideas by otherwise consistent leftists.Anne Hendrixson of the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College observes The biggest danger of blaming overpopulation for environmental problems is that it ignores the real culprits.
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https://www.sott.net/article/412488-Leftish-apocalyptic-environmentalism-and-the-ideology-of-overpopulation
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2019-05-07 00:05:01+00:00
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sputnik--2019-06-18--World Population Predicted to Stop Growing by 2100 for First Time in Modern History - Report
| 2019-06-18T00:00:00 |
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World Population Predicted to Stop Growing by 2100 for First Time in Modern History - Report
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The world’s population is expected to reach around 10.9 billion by 2100, while the annual growth rate will drop to less than 0.1%, which is a “steep decline,” according to Pew. Between 1950 and today, the global population increased between 1% and 2% every year, with the number of people increasing from 2.5 billion to more than 7.7 billion. The global fertility rate is projected to fall from 2.5 births per woman to 1.9 by 2100. The replacement fertility rate (the number of births required to sustain a population’s size) is 2.1 births per woman. The fertility rate is expected to drop below replacement by 2070. Meanwhile, the world’s median age is also expected to increase from the current 31 to 42 by 2100 due to factors such as increased life expectancy. While the overall global birth rate will decrease, some world regions will experience population growth for the rest of the century. Africa’s population, for one, is projected to increase from 1.3 billion to 4.3 billion between 2020 and 2100. Most of these population increases will be in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, half of all baby births worldwide in 2100 will take place in Africa, according to the analysis. While the population will grow at slower rates in much of the world toward the end of the century, half of all population growth by 2050 will occur in nine countries: India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Indonesia, Egypt and the United States. According to Amy Snover, director of the University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group, population increases in sub-Saharan Africa will significantly impact climate change. "Our impact on the climate is tied up with population in lots of different ways -- what resources people are using, how much industrial production is going on, how much energy is needed for heating, cooling and transportation," Snover told NBC News. Migration from the rest of the world will drive population growth in the Northern America region, according to the report. The US immigrant population is expected to increase by over 85 million over the next 80 years. Migration is also expected to be a factor behind the population growth in Canada. Pew’s findings also reveal that the populations of both Europe and Latin America will decline by 2100. Asia’s population is expected to increase from 4.6 billion in 2020 to 5.3 billion in 2055 and then begin to decline. India is predicted to become the world’s most populous country by 2027, taking China’s place.
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https://sputniknews.com/society/201906181075944458-world-population-predicted-to-stop-growing-by-2100-for-first-time-in-modern-history---report-/
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2019-06-18 18:45:34+00:00
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sputnik--2019-08-02--Just Having More Children Wont Solve Problems Caused by Ageing Population - Scholar
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Just Having More Children Won’t Solve Problems Caused by Ageing Population - Scholar
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Sputnik: Official figures have revealed that the birth rate in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest level for at least 80 years. Firstly, can you tell me how significant these findings are and is it really that surprising? Stuart Gietel-Basten: It's not significant in the sense that the demographic impact of this that in Britain, for example, changes in migration are going to be much more important in shaping short term overall population trends and so until we see whether or not this trend continues into the long term I don't anticipate this to be a major change. On the other hand, it is significant, because it's part of a general trend within many other countries which are characterized as having kind of high fertility, in the United Kingdom, but also in Northern Europe and in the United States where we've always assumed fertility would stay fairly high but it's actually starting to turn down. That's why it might be tempting to say "Well this is Brexit or something" or "this is just uncertainty around political uncertainty at the moment" but it's not just confined to England and Wales, we actually see this in other parts of the world as well. Sputnik: Why are these figures so low but also what effect is it having on society in England and Wales? Stuart Gietel-Basten: We shouldn't get too carried away - it's not that low. I live in Hong Kong where fertility is just over 1; in South Korea is even lower than that so some of my colleagues here, in this part of the world, to be worried about a fertility rate, which is at like 1.7/1.8, is what they would really hope that they had a fertility rate like that. So it's not really that low. Other factors will play into dealing with how we cope with, for example, population ageing, if we have a low fertility rate which is sustained in the long run, forgetting about migration that will lead to an increasing rates of population ageing but at the same time if our populations are getting healthier and they're getting better educated and they're getting better skilled and possibly getting richer as well, then we might be able to, we are more able to cope with more rapid population ageing which may come about through low fertility. Sputnik: For the past decade at least in Britain, we've been told that we're moving to an aging population. How do these figures match up with an ever-ageing population and moreover what can be done to encourage individuals to have children? Stuart Gietel-Basten: All populations are always ageing. That's just a fact. The question is whether or not the institutions that we have in place are fit for purpose. Whether it's the pension system or the NHS, is it able to cope with these challenges that will bring the come about through increased population ageing and will it be able to cope with new diseases or growing trends in certain diseases, for example in Alzheimer's. Will we be able to cope with the challenges that we will need to invest in social care as much, if not more than, perhaps in primary healthcare. These are the kind of bigger issues around institutional reform. Now, you say about encouraging people to have more children... Firstly, you could say arguably, it's not there's a moral question around encouraging people that have more children and when we say encouraging people to have more children, it's really about encouraging women to have more children. Now, morally, one can easily make the argument that it's not the place of the state, to encourage or cajole people into having children just to bail out these institutional systems that are in place. A more practical issue is that just having more children really doesn't solve the problems brought about by ageing. Babies don't work; you've got to wait 20 years, more than 20 years for any baby that's born today to actually become productive in society in terms of contributing to the economy. Whilst it might look good on a spreadsheet, that you have more children in very practical terms, it really is a very crude and pretty useless way of offsetting the genuine challenges of population ageing, which are relating to our social institutions, like pensions like health care, like Social Security, and so on. There are much better ways of dealing with this then encouraging people to have more children. Views and opinions, expressed in the article are those of Stuart Gietel-Basten and do not necessarily reflect those of Sputnik.
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tass--2019-01-24--How Russias population changed over the years
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How Russia’s population changed over the years
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MOSCOW, January 24. /TASS/. The Russian Federal State Statistics Service has published the preliminary data concerning Russia’s population in 2018. As of January 1, 2019, Russia’s population reached 146.794 million people, which shows a decrease by 86,000 people compared to last year. In the last 10 years, this is the first recorded decrease of the Russian population. TASS has prepared an overview of how the Russian population had changed over the years. ## Tsarist Russia The first comprehensive population census in Russia took place in 1897. According to the Russian Federal State Statistics Service, the population of the territory that is now considered the Russian Federation constituted 67.5 million people, and by 1914, it had reached 89.9 million. The First World War slowed down the natural population growth; however, it had not stopped completely, with the population reaching 91 million people in 1917. ## The Soviet Union According to the 1926 census, there were 100 million 891 thousand people living on the territory of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (the Russian Statistics Service provides a figure of 92.7 million people, as several regions that were considered part of the Russian Soviet Republic at the time were later integrated into other republics). Up until the start of the Second World War, the population had been growing steadily, reaching 108 million 379 thousand people by 1939. The demographics of the Soviet Union suffered the first serious blow during the Second World War. According to the Soviet state commission on estimating the number of casualties in the war, about 25.3 million people born before June 22, 1941 died between 1941 and 1945. To this estimate, the experts added about 1.3 million children born during the war, who died prematurely. In total, according to data published in the All-Russian Memorial Book (1941-1945), the Soviet Union lost about 26.6 million people in the war. According to the Russian historian Viktor Zemskov, the direct human loss of life in the Soviet Union came up to 16 million people. According to the Russian Federal Statistics Service, the population of the Russian Soviet Republic reached 97 million 457 thousand people in 1946, and only came up to 100 million by 1949. According to the first post-war population census of 1959, 117 million 534 thousand people lived in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. In 1970, the population came up to 130 million 79 thousand people, and in 1979, it reached 137 million 551 thousand. Despite the continued natural growth of the population (600-700 thousand people every year), the second half of the 1970s saw a demographic crisis, as the population born in the 1940s was now reaching adulthood. By 1980-1981, the fertility rate in the Russian Soviet Republic had decreased compared to the previous decade (in 1970-1971, the fertility rate reached 2.0) and came up to 1.895. The so-called demographic echo of the Second World War was among the factors influencing the demographic situation, along with urbanization, increased number of divorces and abortions, as well as high mortality rate among the male population due to alcoholism. However, in the 1980s, the Russian demographic situation remained stable: by 1987, the fertility rate reached 2.23, and the population kept growing by 1-1.2 million people each year. According to the last all-Soviet population census of 1989, the population of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic reached 147 million 401 thousand people. ## Modern Russia The 1990s saw another demographic crisis in Russia due to the so-called "second echo" of the Second World War, as the children born in the 1970s were reaching adulthood. Other factors influencing the crisis were the fall of the Soviet Union and the economic and social crises related to it. In the 1990s, the mortality rate in Russia was 1.5 higher than the fertility rate. The year 1992 marked the first year since the Second World War when the Russian population saw a decrease. At that point, 148.3 million people were living in Russia. According to the Russian Federal Statistics Service, the Russian population decreased by 2.1% in the period from 1991 to 2002, and reached 145.2 million people. The demographic decline continued until 2009, with the population low coming up to 142.7 million people. In 2010, the generation born in the 1980s started reaching adulthood, which facilitated the growth of the country’s population. According to the 2010 census, 142 million 857 thousand people lived in Russia. In 2014, the Russian population increased by 400 thousand people compared to 2013, reaching 143.7 million. In 2015, due to Crimea starting to form part of Russia, the Russian population came up to 146.5 million people. The year 2015 also saw the highest fertility rate (1.78). The positive dynamic maintained itself until 2018, with the latest data signifying a population decrease.
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thedailycaller--2019-06-17--Population Bomb China Expected To Have 400 Million Fewer People By 2100
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Population Bomb? China Expected To Have 400 Million Fewer People By 2100
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China may lose nearly 400 million people by the end of the century, according to a Pew Research Center report based on United Nations population projections. China’s population is expected to decline by 374 million to slightly more than 1 billion people by 2100, down from more than 1.4 million in 2020, Pew reported Monday. Global population growth is expected to stall by the end of the century. “By 2100, the world’s population is projected to reach approximately 10.9 billion, with annual growth of less than 0.1% – a steep decline from current levels,” Pew researchers wrote, saying the decline is “due in large part to falling global fertility rates.” “Between 1950 and today, the world’s population grew between 1% and 2% each year, with the number of people rising from 2.5 billion to more than 7.7 billion,” Pew researchers added. Population projections show China losing its spot as the world’s most populous country to India in 2100. Likewise, the U.S. is expected to lose its number three spot to Nigeria, which is expected to have 733 million people by 2100. (RELATED: US Reliance On OPEC Oil Hits 30-Year Low) “Between 2020 and 2100, Africa’s population is expected to increase from 1.3 billion to 4.3 billion. Projections show these gains will come mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, which is expected to more than triple in population by 2100,” Pew researchers wrote. Plummeting fertility rates will have massive economic and environmental implications. Decades ago, environmental activists and some scholars warned of a coming “population bomb” that would stretch the planet’s natural resources beyond its limits. However, predictions of ecological calamity, along with mass famine, due to overpopulation have not come to pass. World population more than doubled from 3.5 billion in the 1960s to 7.7 billion today. Population is also factored into global warming predictions. For example, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s RCP 8.5 climate modeling scenario, often called the “worst-case,” projects global population hitting 12 billion by 2100. Experts have increasingly begun to question the likelihood of a “worst-case” global warming scenario, including one 2018 study that called RCP 8.5 “exceptionally unlikely.” The U.N. now expects the global population to peak at 10.9 billion with the fertility rate falling to 1.9 — below the population “replacement rate.” Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].
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veteranstoday--2019-01-07--China faces unstoppable population decline India may already be worlds most populous country
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China faces ‘unstoppable’ population decline, India may already be world’s most populous country
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Russia Today: China’s population is set to peak at 1.44 billion in 2029 before beginning an “unstoppable” decline in 2030, according to a shocking new report. Data hints that India may already be the most populous country in the world. According to the ‘Green Book of Population and Labor‘ published by the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) on Friday, growth in China’s working population has stagnated. Meanwhile, the country’s “dependency rate” (the population of non-working people including children and the elderly) is predicted to increase for decades to come in a trend which will have a far-reaching socioeconomic impact on the world’s most populous country. “From a theoretical point of view, the long-term population decline, especially when it is accompanied by a continuously aging population, is bound to cause very unfavorable social and economic consequences,” the CASS report states. By mid-century, China’s population is expected to fall to 1.36 billion, with a consequent drop in the workforce of roughly 200 million. If fertility rates remain in or around current levels, the population could drop as low as 1.17 billion by 2065, the report warns. READ MORE: The devil you know: Old foes India & China strengthen ties as America proves too unreliable “For the Chinese population, the most important demographic event in the first half of the 21st century is without a doubt the arrival of the era of negative population growth,” the report’s authors added. The country’s birth rate fell by 3.5 percent in 2017 despite an end to the highly controversial “one-child policy.” However, this policy shift, in combination with a rising proportion of retirees thru 2060 will further exacerbate the dependency rate: at present, China’s elderly population is projected to reach 400 million by the end of 2035. Also on rt.com The EU bubble is doomed to burst in 2019, financial analyst warns With roughly 83 million people being added to the world’s population every year, current estimates project that we will reach 11.2 billion by 2100. The UN estimates that India will overtake China by 2024 as the world’s most populous country, though some believe this already occurred last year. By 2100, over 80 percent of the world’s population will live in either Asia or Africa. READ MORE: China to mark economic miracle that pulled 700 million people out of poverty Nigeria remains the most rapidly growing population (and seventh largest) and is expected to surpass the US by 2050. Fertility rates are declining in nearly all regions of the world, including Africa, the most fertile region, with Europe the only exception, according to UN 2017 report. Between 2010 and 2015, fertility rates dropped below replacement level in 83 countries, accounting for roughly 46 percent of the world’s population. China, the United States of America, Brazil, the Russian Federation, Japan, Vietnam, Germany, Iran, Thailand, and the United Kingdom all feature among these 83. Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!
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activistpost--2019-11-06--45 Population Control Quotes That Show The Elite Are Quite Eager To Reduce The Number Of People On T
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45 Population Control Quotes That Show The Elite Are Quite Eager To Reduce The Number Of People On The Planet
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At one time, the elite at least attempted to conceal their boundless enthusiasm for population control from the general public, but now they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore. On Tuesday, an alarming new study that advocates global population control as one of the solutions to the “climate emergency” that we are facing was published in the journal BioScience. This document has already been signed by 11,258 scientists from 153 different countries, and it openly calls for a reduction in the human population of our planet. This has always been the endgame for the climate change cult, but now a big push is being made to make the public believe that there is a “scientific consensus” that this is necessary. You can find a summary of the report here, and I would very much encourage you to read it, because it is essentially a blueprint for where the elite intend to take humanity in the years ahead. But in order to achieve their goals, first they are going to have to convince us that planetary disaster is imminent, and in this study the authors boldly tell us “that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency”… So what solutions are they proposing? Well, the study breaks down the necessary solutions into six basic groupings… If that sounds a lot like “the Green New Deal”, that is because it is a lot like “the Green New Deal”. It is the sixth “objective” that concerns me the most. Because the truth is that they don’t want to just “stabilize” the global population. According to the study, the population of the Earth really needs to be “gradually reduced”… But if humans are the primary driver of climate change, and if we only have about 12 years before we reach the point of no return as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has suggested, will a “gradual” reduction of the human population really be enough to satisfy the climate change zealots? For true believers in the cause, there would be no faster way of turning this crisis around than to radically reduce the population of the planet. According to them, every one of us has “a carbon footprint”, and as the population grows the climate change crisis only gets worse. So a logical extension of this thinking would be that anyone that can find a way to significantly reduce the global population would literally be “saving the planet”. To you and I, the idea of millions or billions of people dying is absolutely horrific, but for those that have fully embraced the climate change narrative such an outcome would be extremely desirable. And of course population control has been an obsession among the global elite for a very long time. Way before “global warming” and “climate change” were popularized, those at the top end of the social pyramid have been dreaming of dramatically culling the herd. To demonstrate this, I would like to share with you 45 quotes that prove the elite really do want to dramatically reduce the number of people on the planet… 1. Charles Darwin (his thinking is at the foundation of so many of our scientific theories today): “At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.” 2. Bill Gates: “The problem is that the population is growing the fastest where people are less able to deal with it. So it’s in the very poorest places that you’re going to have a tripling in population by 2050. (…) And we’ve got to make sure that we help out with the tools now so that they don’t have an impossible situation later.” 3. Bernie Sanders: “In poor countries around the world where women do not necessarily want to have large numbers of babies, and where they can have the opportunity through birth control to control the number of kids they have, is something I very, very strongly support.” 4. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson: “The primary challenge facing our species is the reproduction of our species itself…It is time we had a grown-up discussion about the optimum quantity of human beings in this country and on this planet…All the evidence shows that we can help reduce population growth, and world poverty, by promoting literacy and female emancipation and access to birth control.” 5. UK Television Presenter Sir David Attenborough: “The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrolled way. If we do not take charge of our population size, then nature will do it for us.” 6. Paul Ehrlich, a former science adviser to president George W. Bush and the author of “The Population Bomb”: “Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism… of sexism… of religious intolerance… of war… of gross economic inequality. But if you don’t solve the population problem, you’re not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you’re interested in, you’re not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem.” 7. Dave Foreman, the co-founder of Earth First: “We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox.” 8. CNN Founder Ted Turner: “A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.” 9. Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso: about medical patients with serious illnesses: “You cannot sleep well when you think it’s all paid by the government. This won’t be solved unless you let them hurry up and die.” 10. David Rockefeller: “The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.” 11. Richard Branson: “The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools.” 12. Environmental activist Roger Martin: “On a finite planet, the optimum population providing the best quality of life for all, is clearly much smaller than the maximum, permitting bare survival. The more we are, the less for each; fewer people mean better lives.” 13. HBO personality Bill Maher: “I’m pro-choice, I’m for assisted suicide, I’m for regular suicide, I’m for whatever gets the freeway moving – that’s what I’m for. It’s too crowded, the planet is too crowded and we need to promote death.” 14. Al Gore: “One of the things we could do about it is to change the technologies, to put out less of this pollution, to stabilize the population, and one of the principal ways of doing that is to empower and educate girls and women. You have to have ubiquitous availability of fertility management so women can choose how many children to have, the spacing of the children… You have to educate girls and empower women. And that’s the most powerful leveraging factor, and when that happens, then the population begins to stabilize and societies begin to make better choices and more balanced choices.” 15. MIT professor Penny Chisholm: “The real trick is, in terms of trying to level off at someplace lower than that 9 billion, is to get the birthrates in the developing countries to drop as fast as we can. And that will determine the level at which humans will level off on earth.” 16. Julia Whitty, a columnist for Mother Jones: “The only known solution to ecological overshoot is to decelerate our population growth faster than it’s decelerating now and eventually reverse it—at the same time we slow and eventually reverse the rate at which we consume the planet’s resources. Success in these twin endeavors will crack our most pressing global issues: climate change, food scarcity, water supplies, immigration, health care, biodiversity loss, even war. On one front, we’ve already made unprecedented strides, reducing global fertility from an average 4.92 children per woman in 1950 to 2.56 today—an accomplishment of trial and sometimes brutally coercive error, but also a result of one woman at a time making her individual choices. The speed of this childbearing revolution, swimming hard against biological programming, rates as perhaps our greatest collective feat to date.” 17. Colorado State University Professor Philip Cafaro in a paper entitled “Climate Ethics and Population Policy”: “Ending human population growth is almost certainly a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for preventing catastrophic global climate change. Indeed, significantly reducing current human numbers may be necessary in order to do so.“ 18. Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Austin Eric R. Pianka: “I have two grandchildren and I want them to inherit a stable Earth. But I fear for them. Humans have overpopulated the Earth and in the process have created an ideal nutritional substrate on which bacteria and viruses (microbes) will grow and prosper. We are behaving like bacteria growing on an agar plate, flourishing until natural limits are reached or until another microbe colonizes and takes over, using them as their resource. In addition to our extremely high population density, we are social and mobile, exactly the conditions that favor growth and spread of pathogenic (disease-causing) microbes. I believe it is only a matter of time until microbes once again assert control over our population, since we are unwilling to control it ourselves. This idea has been espoused by ecologists for at least four decades and is nothing new. People just don’t want to hear it.” 19. Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General from 1997-2006: “The idea that population growth guarantees a better life — financially or otherwise — is a myth that only those who sell nappies, prams and the like have any right to believe.” 20. Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, UN Under-Secretary-General from 2000-2010: “We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health.” 21. Bill Nye: “In 1750, there were about a billion humans in the world. Now, there are well over seven billion people in the world. It more than doubled in my lifetime. So all these people trying to live the way we live in the developed world is filling the atmosphere with a great deal more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases than existed a couple of centuries ago. It’s the speed at which it is changing that is going to be troublesome for so many large populations of humans around the world.” 22. Actress Cameron Diaz: “I think women are afraid to say that they don’t want children because they’re going to get shunned. But I think that’s changing too now. I have more girlfriends who don’t have kids than those that do. And, honestly? We don’t need any more kids. We have plenty of people on this planet.” 23. Democrat strategist Steven Rattner: “WE need death panels. Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently — rationing, by its proper name — the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.” 24. Matthew Yglesias, a business and economics correspondent for Slate, in an article entitled “The Case for Death Panels, in One Chart”: “But not only is this health care spending on the elderly the key issue in the federal budget, our disproportionate allocation of health care dollars to old people surely accounts for the remarkable lack of apparent cost effectiveness of the American health care system. When the patient is already over 80, the simple fact of the matter is that no amount of treatment is going to work miracles in terms of life expectancy or quality of life.” 25. Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger: “All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class” 26. Gloria Steinem: “Everybody with a womb doesn’t have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal chords has to be an opera singer.” 27. Jane Goodall: “It’s our population growth that underlies just about every single one of the problems that we’ve inflicted on the planet. If there were just a few of us, then the nasty things we do wouldn’t really matter and Mother Nature would take care of it — but there are so many of us.” 28. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.” 29. Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger: “The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” 30. Salon columnist Mary Elizabeth Williams in an article entitled “So What If Abortion Ends Life?”: “All life is not equal. That’s a difficult thing for liberals like me to talk about, lest we wind up looking like death-panel-loving, kill-your-grandma-and-your-precious-baby storm troopers. Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides.” 31. Paul Ehrlich: “Basically, then, there are only two kinds of solutions to the population problem. One is a ‘birth rate solution,’ in which we find ways to lower the birth rate. The other is a ‘death rate solution,’ in which ways to raise the death rate — war, famine, pestilence — find us.” 32. Alberto Giubilini of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and Francesca Minerva of the University of Melbourne in a paper published in the Journal of Medical Ethics: “[W]hen circumstances occur after birth such that they would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible. … [W]e propose to call this practice ‘after-birth abortion’, rather than ‘infanticide,’ to emphasize that the moral status of the individual killed is comparable with that of a fetus … rather than to that of a child. Therefore, we claim that killing a newborn could be ethically permissible in all the circumstances where abortion would be. Such circumstances include cases where the newborn has the potential to have an (at least) acceptable life, but the well-being of the family is at risk.”
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drudgereport--2019-12-22--EXODUS: California population growth slowest since 1900...
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EXODUS: California population growth slowest since 1900...
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The Golden State remains stuck in the slow lane when it comes to population. The number of Californians increased to 39.96 million, with new data from the Department of Finance showing mostly downward trends. They are rooted in fewer births, coupled with increased deaths among an aging population. The Golden State, however, has also seen changes in international migration, along with more and more residents leaving the state. The estimates, which indicate that California’s population grew by 141,300 people between July 1, 2018, and July 1, 2019, nonetheless signal a 0.35% growth rate, “down from 0.57% for the prior 12 months — the two lowest recorded growth rates since 1900,” department officials underscored According to the agency, natural increase (with 452,200 births and 271,400 deaths) accounted for an additional 180,800 people to the state. Still, these gains were offset by losses in net migration — that is, the total amount of people moving into the state minus the total amount of people moving out. Notably, said Eddie Hunsinger, a demographer with the Department of Finance, even though the net international migration added to the state’s population, there was substantial negative domestic net migration, which resulted in a loss of 39,500 residents. This, said the department, marks “the first time since the 2010 Census that California has had more people leaving the state than moving in from abroad or other states.” William Frey, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said Friday’s findings follow a trend that demographers have seen over several years. While California has always seen domestic outmigration — people moving to other states — the rate has grown over the last decade. “For some years after the Great Recession housing crunch, California was losing domestic migrants — but not as much as it could have. Now that’s starting to push up again,” Frey said. The most common destinations for those leaving the state were Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Texas and Washington, he said, as the economy has picked up throughout the west and other parts of the country. Aside from a lower cost-of-living, some Californians are drawn to areas with no state income tax. One key contributor to the decline in growth is the dip in immigration levels, Frey added. Although California is still home to a large percentage of the nation’s immigrants, that number has declined. “In the past, California would be growing because immigration would counteract domestic outmigration,” he said. “The outmigration is in places where housing prices are high and therefore immigration is not being able to counter that.” In Los Angeles County, the region saw overall outmigration even when counting the influx of immigrants. Orange, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara and San Diego counties also had negative net migration, even with gains from immigration. “California was the place, the big destination, for people around the country and around the world,” he said. “It’s lost its luster a little bit. The question is whether it’s short-term or long-term. I think the jury is still out. To me, it’s kind of a stunner to see that California is losing migrants. The land of dreams and the gold rush and all that, now turned the other direction.” Frey said the decline in growth could have implications during the 2020 census count and the ensuing apportionment that is based on census figures. “It’s something to be concerned about,” he said. “California could be on the cusp of losing a seat if it doesn’t show up with a decent count.” In an email to The Times, demographer Hunsinger countered that “the estimates are for current and historical information (rather than the future).” There were also some notable internal shifts. Within the state, smaller counties in remote areas either saw population declines or slight increases, with the exception of regions surrounding Butte County site of the 2018 Camp fire — the deadliest in California history. It destroyed the town of Paradise and, in addition to killing 86 people, displaced some 35,700 residents. According to the Department of Finance, the bulk of those affected by the fire relocated to nearby cities in Butte or surrounding counties, including Colusa, Glenn, Plumas, Sutter, Tehama and Yuba. Four of these counties, in fact, were listed among the top 10 with the highest population growth rates. Beyond these exceptions, however, the statewide rate of population growth is shrinking . Dowell Myers, an expert in demographics at USC, said the population growth in California has been slowing down for three years. The state recovered from the recession he said, but as things have “perked up” in California, not everyone has felt the benefits. “Jobs are getting better, but people’s recovery has turned around and gone bad,” Myers said. “I think because of housing prices. The peak millennial is turning 30 in 2020. It’s a pivotal moment and they can’t find housing. So people aren’t coming as much, and they’re leaving here more.” Myers noted that a big part of the lack of growth is the decline in birth rates — something he attributes to young couples’ inability to “find a nest,” or affordable housing, where they would want to raise children. “People need to feel secure in having housing before they can start a family, " Myers said. “Other people won’t come because they have heard the news.” He added: “We better get our act together pretty darn quick. This is as good as it’s going to get. People should be flourishing. The fact that the number of babies is going down is really worrisome.” Los Angeles County saw a 17% decline in the amount of children in the area over the last decade, Myers said. “We are worse off and we have the best economy,” he said. “It’s not sustainable,” Myers added. “I think we need to have enough housing for workers to live in and for people to start families. Older people have the right to stay in their houses, but we need to make room for the young people or else we will turn into a retirement city by the sea.”
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrudgeReportFeed/~3/LB_OUh0ksnI/california-population-continues-to-decline-with-state-emigration-a-major-factor
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Sun, 22 Dec 2019 00:16:44 GMT
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lifesitenews--2019-12-11--Spain registers more deaths than births as native population heads for collapse
| 2019-12-11T00:00:00 |
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Spain registers more deaths than births as native population heads for collapse
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MADRID, December 11, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Spanish authorities revealed that tens of thousands more citizens died than were born in the first six months of 2019. The alarming statistics not only reveal this time period to have the lowest birthrate in almost 80 years, but they also highlight the country’s trend toward what observers are calling the country’s “demographic suicide.” According to the Spanish National Statistical Institute (INE), between January and June of this year, Spain saw only 170,074 children born. In this same time frame, 215,478 citizens died. This means that there was a decline in Spain’s population by 45,404 persons during that period. Having a death rate higher than the birth rate indicates a shrinking population. According to the INE, the number of births registered for January-June this year represents a drop of 6.2% in comparison to the same period in 2018. This is the worst birth rate ever registered by Spain, which began keeping birth statistics in 1941, just two years after the devastating civil war in the country that caused as many as 2 million deaths in just three years. Spain’s total population grew slightly last year by 284,387 people (0.6%), thanks to immigration, putting the total at 47 million in 2018. This was the first overall increase since 2013. The total population had dropped during the intervening years. Spain is a favorite destination not only for European tourists, but also elderly European pensioners and young migrants from Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. Stats show that Spain’s population is getting older. The average age of all residents is 43.4 years. The average age of native-born Spaniards is 44.2 years, while foreigners average 36.1 years. Foreigners constitute the younger crowd in Spain: 55% of foreigners are between the ages of 16 to 44 years, while Spaniards of that age bracket represent 34.1%. Births to foreign-born women are more likely than those to native Spaniards, according to INE, which showed that during the first six months of this year they comprised 21.5% of the total number of births. This showed growth from the 20.1% registered during the first six months of 2018. Observers in Spain have noted the influence that abortion has on the birth dearth. After five years of decreasing abortion numbers, 2017 saw an uptick by more than 4,000 aborted babies over 2016. According to a government report, there were 10.5 abortions per 1,000 women in 2017, as opposed to the years before 2010, when there were 11.71 abortions per 1,000 women. It was in 2018 that the government lessened the protections for unborn babies. Abortion is now permitted for girls as young as 16, with parental permission. According to the pro-life Institute for Family Policy (IPF), more than 2 million abortions were committed in Spain between 1985 and 2015. Spain now has the third-highest number of abortions in Europe, lagging behind France and the United Kingdom. The Institute reported in May that various regions of Spain are “trending toward demographic suicide” because of a low population growth rate largely due to a high abortion rate.
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https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/spain-registers-more-deaths-than-births-as-native-population-heads-for-collapse
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2019-12-11T22:06:00+00:00
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liveaction--2019-06-19--WATCH Pro-Life Replies Is abortion necessary to prevent overpopulation
| 2019-06-19T00:00:00 |
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WATCH Pro-Life Replies: Is abortion necessary to prevent overpopulation?
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The latest video in Live Action’s “Pro-Life Replies” series was released today in response to the claim, “Abortion will stop overpopulation.” Very recently, the news media has been sounding the alarm about our world’s population crisis — but not in the way you might expect. Recent headlines have noted that the current population crisis is not one of having too many people, but too few. Countries are not achieving replacement level to support their aging populations or maintain their workforces, and this could lead to dire consequences and severe economic instability. Despite this, many abortion advocates hold to the idea that the world is suffering not from a demographic winter, but from overpopulation — and they claim abortion is necessary to avert a crisis. But, as the video below asks, “Even if it were true, would aborting large numbers of people be a moral way to respond?” Steven Mosher of the Population Research Institute addresses this argument in the video below: According to the website for the Population Research Institute, Steven Mosher was invited to China by the Chinese government as a social scientist in 1979, “where he had access to government documents and actually witnessed women being forced to have abortions under the new ‘one-child policy.'” At that time, Mosher was pro-choice but became pro-life after witnessing these abortions. WATCH: ‘Personally pro-life’? This new video may cause you to rethink that. Mass slaughter should never be a solution to overpopulation Mosher notes, “It goes without saying that mass slaughter is a crime against humanity, and should never ever be proposed as the solution to any human problem. Overpopulation or no, would you support the annihilation of any segment of humanity — the elderly, for example, or the very young — or women, or men, or people of a certain race or culture? Of course not…. And yet, there are those who not only support the mass slaughter of the preborn, but are actually engaged in carrying it out. All in the name of combatting something called “overpopulation.” Mosher mentions China, India, and Indonesia, and the horror of forced abortions and sex-selective abortions, all done under the banner of preventing overpopulation. We have enough resources to feed billions Mosher points out that global resources for feeding people aren’t lacking — but getting that food to those people is the issue — something that abortion definitely won’t solve. Mosher says: There are currently 7 ½ billion people on the planet, but we could easily feed, with current agricultural technology, twice that number. Since the “Green Revolution” of the 1970s, we are producing more food on less land, and humanity is eating better than ever before. Are there still hungry people? Of course. But this is not because there is a global shortage of food but because of corrupt governments, poor distribution systems, and ongoing wars and civil unrest. READ: Nearly half of countries have ‘insufficient children’ to maintain populations It’s underpopulation that is the real danger Mosher states, ” … [T]he evidence indicates that the world isn’t in danger from overpopulation; it’s in danger from underpopulation. Around the world, birth rates have fallen, work forces are shrinking, while the numbers of elderly are dramatically increasing… As David Brooks has written in the New York Times, ‘For decades, people took dynamism and economic growth for granted and saw population growth as a problem. Now we’ve gone to the other extreme, and it’s clear that young people are the scarce resource. In the 21st century, the U.S. could be the slowly aging leader of a rapidly aging world.'” Mosher adds, “Dozens of countries now have shrinking populations, and nearly have adopted policies that encourage people to date, get married, and have children.” While many of the younger generation forego having children due to apparently concerns over population growth and climate change, Mosher says the truth is that children are the most important resource any country can have. The world does not need fewer children. Visit Pro-Life Replies for more on this and other videos in the series. “Like” Live Action News on Facebook for more pro-life news and commentary!
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Kelli
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https://www.liveaction.org/news/pro-life-replies-abortion-prevent-overpopulation/
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2019-06-19 15:00:09+00:00
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liveaction--2019-11-08--Population control will save earth, say 11,000 scientists. There’s a problem with that.
| 2019-11-08T00:00:00 |
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Population control will save earth, say 11,000 scientists. There’s a problem with that.
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A group of 11,000 scientists (some from outside the climate and energy fields) has signed a letter suggesting that population control methods should be used to stop global warming. In addition to altering our energy sources, reducing emissions, eating more plant-based foods, protecting natural habits, and creating a carbon-free economy, the scientists behind the letter believe efforts should also be focused on “family planning.” Not everyone agrees. “Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to ‘tell it like it is,'” the letter states. “On the basis of this obligation and the graphical indicators presented below, we declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.” The letter states that the global population is increasing by about 80 million people each year, and calls for the “world population to be stabilized – and, ideally, gradually reduced.” The scientists are pushing for family-planning services – ie: contraception, abortion and sterilization – to be made available to “all people.” They also call for full gender equity and primary and secondary education for everyone globally – especially girls and young women. But as James Temple reports for TechnologyReview.com, other scientists see serious problems here. It seems to be wealthy nations which already have dangerously low birth rates, and they don’t seem to be improving. Experts believe this will lead to an economic crisis. For example, Hungary is actually offering incentives and tax breaks to encourage couples to have more children. Birth rates in poorer nations, however, are not slowing down — and apparently that’s where the issue lies for these scientists. READ: African woman to UN: Pushing abortion on Africa is colonization “[…R]ich nations generally already have flat or declining birth rates, so the proposal largely seems directed at fast-growing developing nations in Africa and Asia,” wrote Temple. “Specifically, the UN projects that nine countries will account for more than half of projected growth between now and 2050, including (in descending order) India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, the United Republic of Tanzania, Indonesia, Egypt, and the US (where migration is expected to be the main driver of growth).” It is the wealthy, however, that are the driving forces behind the “excessive consumption of the wealthy lifestyle,” including number of air passengers carried, and the “most affluent countries are mainly responsible for the historical GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions and generally have the greatest per capita emissions,” the letter reads. So if the wealthy of the world are not contributing to the increase in population, but are the main contributors to global warming, that means the scientists’ plan to stop climate change lands on the poor of the world — the ones who are doing the least to hurt the environment. It would be these individuals — the poor African and Asian nations — that the scientists would be targeting for contraception, abortion, and sterilization, because the wealthy people of the world are allegedly destroying the planet. Meanwhile, it’s the wealthy who fund the organizations that are working overtime to ensure that people of Africa have access to the contraception and abortion that they don’t want in the first place. Obianuju Ekeocha, founder and president of Culture of Life Africa calls this “ideological colonization.” “A bunch of white people in the developed world saying population should be reduced is the definition of an imperialist framing,” tweeted Arvind Ravikumar, an assistant professor of energy engineering at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. According to Temple, the idea that population control should be used to save the environment could be “abused to justify more aggressive tactics of population control, or racist attitudes toward growing parts of the developing world.” It is reminiscent, he says, of the days of openly-promoted eugenics. Sadly, in those days African-American women and women with disabilities were sterilized without their consent. As Townhall notes, this latest statement warning against a climate emergency sounds like the latest case of scientists crying wolf on climate change. Dire warnings of impending doom have been issued for the last 50 years. Famine was forecasted for 1975 with food rationing by 1980, and a new ice age was predicted for the start of the 21st century. It’s a tale that’s been on repeat for half a century. Rather than forcing (underprivileged) human beings not to have children in order to rectify the damage caused by the privileged, perhaps scientists should be focused on designing and building new ways of reducing emissions and creating less waste. “Like” Live Action News on Facebook for more pro-life news and commentary!
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Nancy Flanders
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https://www.liveaction.org/news/population-control-earth-scientists-problem/
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Fri, 08 Nov 2019 14:20:24 +0000
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newsweek--2019-01-02--Chinas Population Is Degenerating Into a Small Group of the Old and the Weak Experts Say
| 2019-01-02T00:00:00 |
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China’s Population Is ‘Degenerating Into a Small Group of the Old and the Weak,’ Experts Say
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China may have the largest population of any country, but its citizens are aging and the birth rate is plummeting. Yi Fuxian, a researcher from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Su Jian, an economist at Peking University, co-authored a paper suggesting that China has entered a long-term downward population spiral. The experts warned that the past year will be “remembered as a historical turning point for [the] Chinese population,” arguing that China is “degenerating into a small group of the old and the weak thanks to wrong demographic policies,” the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday. “The Chinese population has started to fall, the ageing problems has accelerated, and economic vitality has weakened,” the academics wrote in their paper. Although China has yet to release its nationwide report on births in the country for 2018, with a population just under 1.39 billion, the number of births is believed to have dropped below 15 million in 2018, according to the Post, more than two million fewer than 2017. That’s also far short of the government’s previous projected estimate of 20 million. In late December, the BBC reported that the birth rate was expected to continue to decline further in China next year and beyond as the overall population ages. Within the next decade, the amount of Chinese aged 23 to 30 will decline by 40 percent, making increasing births even more unlikely. As China’s economic growth is already slowing, a declining population could have a drastic long-term effect on the Asian powerhouse’s prosperity. Part of the problem, according to analysts, is China’s long-standing one-child policy, which was relaxed in 2016. Yi and others have long criticized the approach to limit population growth, now warning that the impact could be difficult to reverse. Hua Changchun, an economist with Guotai Junan Securities, also warned of the ballooning effect. “A sharp drop in new births is probably the beginning of a long new era, during which population will see contraction,” he said, according to the Post. Meanwhile, China’s elderly population is projected to reach some 400 million by 2035, a significant increase from its current level of 240 million, Reuters reported. As a result, many in China, including the government and the Communist Party, have expressed concern for the future. Official propaganda slogans have been issued encouraging couples to “have children for the country,” according to the BBC. There is also talk of providing cash incentives to new parents and extending maternity leave in a bid to encourage more births. Unless a major shift occurs, there will only be about eight million births per year within 10 years. But after three decades of strict family planning, which forced abortions and slapped hefty fines on parents who had multiple children, young Chinese have seen the personal benefits of not having siblings. This allowed them to be the center of their parents' attention, while also saving their family money. Young people in the country told the BBC that they are not interested in having more than one child as a result.
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https://www.newsweek.com/china-population-degenerating-old-weak-experts-1277023?utm_source=Public&utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=Distribution
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2019-01-02 15:59:43+00:00
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newyorkpost--2019-01-10--Americans arent making enough babies to sustain the population
| 2019-01-10T00:00:00 |
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Americans aren’t making enough babies to sustain the population
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Americans aren’t making enough babies for the population to replace itself, according to a government report released Thursday which found fertility rates at their lowest since 1978. The US marked its seventh straight year of declining fertility rates in 2017, which saw the biggest drop yet — just 1,765.5 births per 1,000 women, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. That’s roughly 16 percent below the number needed — 2,100 births per 1,000 women — for the population to reproduce itself, according to US News & World Report. The 2017 statistics are down from 1,820.5 in 2016, 1,843.5 in 2015, and 1,862.5 in 2014. The annual CDC report broke down the number of births per state and race. Two states — South Dakota and Utah — had rates above the number needed for a stable population. The District of Columbia, meanwhile, had the lowest. Hispanics had the most babies in 2017 — 2,006.5 per 1,000 women — while white women had the fewest at a rate of 1,666.5. African-American women were in the middle with 1,824.5. The report doesn’t offer reasons behind the waning birth rates. But experts pointed to a combination of economic changes, access to contraception and better education when it comes to sex — leading to a drop in babies born to teen moms. “We’ve been seeing, year after year, a precipitous drop in the number of births to teenage girls,” Dr. John Rowe, a professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, told NBC News. “That’s good news. Not only are these children not having children, but they’re also getting a chance to finish high school. And that makes a huge difference to their lives.” The fertility rate decline also underscores a dynamic shift in women’s societal roles — they are more career-oriented now and less focused on being homemakers. “In general women are getting married later in life,” Rowe added. “They are leaving the home and launching their families later.” More young women are delaying expanding their families — but opting to freeze their eggs. John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health professor Donna Strobino suggested that the birth rates may even out in the future. “It may not be all doom and gloom,” she said. “I think it may stabilize once women who have been postponing pregnancy have the births they are planning to have.”
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https://nypost.com/2019/01/10/americans-arent-making-enough-babies-to-sustain-the-population/
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2019-01-10 16:30:17+00:00
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observer--2019-04-26--Is Thanos Right That We Need To Destroy Half Our Population To Survive
| 2019-04-26T00:00:00 |
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Is Thanos Right That We Need To Destroy Half Our Population To Survive?
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In Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, the super villain Thanos assembles six Infinity Stones to wipe out half of the world’s people in order to cure all of the ills of overpopulation in society. It’s not a new idea, but in addition to its ethical issues, it wouldn’t work. In this article, you’ll see what could cure the globe of its population explosion. The purple-skinned, gold-gloved antagonist of Marvel’s Avengers, is hardly the first pop-culture population control proponent. There’s also the villain of Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon book-turned-movie Inferno who said: Consider this. It took the earth’s population thousands of years—from the early dawn of man all the way to the early 1800s—to reach one billion people. Then astoundingly, it took only about a hundred years to double the population to two billion in the 1920s. After that, it took a mere 50 years for the population to double again to four billion in the 1970s. As you can imagine, we’re well on track to reach eight billion very soon. Just today, the human race added another quarter-billion people to planet Earth. A quarter-million. And this happens every day—rain or shine. Currently every year we’re adding the equivalent of the entire country of Germany. Those statistics sure shock my students when we cover them in my International Politics class on demographics. The problem seems hopeless. Only some magic stones could be the cure. But as you’ll see, even if you wipe out half the Earth’s people, it wouldn’t take long for the population to rebound. If you think about it, every year of World War II, the world’s population grew. Hitler’s Holocaust, Stalin’s purges and Mao Zedong’s “Great Leap Forward,” the “Killing Fields” of Cambodia, and even “Hotel Rwanda” couldn’t slow population growth. Overpopulation is a real concern. Most articles about Thanos and this subject insist that population growth isn’t a bad thing. That’s not correct. An increase in people, and a decrease in resources, is a recipe for disaster, as Rev. Thomas Malthus pointed out in his 1798 paper “An Essay on the Principles of Population.” So where does the problem come from? To fight the problem, you have to understand it first. And the best way to do that is to learn about the “Demographic Transition Model.” Our story begins with the traditional society, conservative on social issues, agrarian-based, with a high birth rate and a high death rate. You need a big family to run a farm, and your religious-based society approves the increase in kids. Things are in equilibrium, so population growth isn’t a big deal. But then we get into the transition phase during industrialization. Suddenly, improvements are being made in health care and sanitation, and one’s quality of life, which leads to longer life and a dropping death rate thanks to factors like a lower infant mortality. But the society tends to keep those old-fashioned traditional ideas about birth control, abortion and being fruitful and multiplying. So the birth rate stays high, and that’s where the population increase comes from. And when more kids are living long enough to have kids, you have “Demographic Momentum,” a prescription for overpopulation. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Sri Lanka is a perfect example of the Demographic Transition Model. And with the legacy of the island’s terrorism and repression, the recent Easter bomb blasts don’t seem so unusual in that small crowded country. This is where Thanos would fail. It wouldn’t take long for global population growth to bounce back after his big population purge. It’s about a change in attitudes, not a change in the volume of people. So what can be done? In order to move a country from the transition phase to the modern phase, you need a drop in birth rates. Conservatives are likely to howl about a loss of “traditional” values, but that doesn’t mean a country has to have lots of abortions. One of the stronger indicators of development is increasing a country’s education prospects, especially for women. As women pursue college, and put off having kids until later, the population numbers begin to fall. As a country shifts to a post-industrial world with a sophisticated economy, kids get pretty expensive too. In a class exercise, I ask students their gender and how many kids they’d like to have. Male students typically want an average of one kid more than the female students. But after we review how much having kids costs (hospital, education, clothes, health care, food… and infant formula is pretty expensive!), everyone revises their expectations down significantly. How do we know it works? It’s already happening now. Look at Europe, North America and Northeast Asia. These First World countries with their developed economies are following this exact playbook. In fact, it’s worked so well that some of these nations are getting worried that their population growth has fallen too much. Meanwhile, in the Third World, countries are exploding with population. Refugees from conflict, environmental problems and resource shortages are spilling into the West, triggering a debate between those who want walls and those who want immigrants to shore up their shrinking populations. Some compromises on immigration, traditional values, economic modernization and foreign aid can and should be reached to bring the world back to equilibrium. It’s not too late, and it would be more effective for striking that balance between people and the Earth’s carrying capacity, a more effective solution than anything a would-be Thanos could achieve. John A. Tures is a professor of political science at LaGrange College in LaGrange, Georgia—read his full bio here.
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John A. Tures
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https://observer.com/2019/04/avengers-endgame-thanos-population-crisis/
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2019-04-26 17:33:41+00:00
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prisonplanet--2019-02-08--New Outrage Japans Deputy PM Blames Women Not Giving Birth For Declining Population
| 2019-02-08T00:00:00 |
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New Outrage: “Japan’s Deputy PM Blames Women ‘Not Giving Birth’ For Declining Population”
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Suggesting women having less babies causes population numbers to decline is now verboten. Both CNN and the Guardian picked up this story: The Guardian had the most details: Japan’s gaffe-prone deputy prime minister, Taro Aso, has been forced to retract remarks that appeared to blame women who do not have children for problems associated with the country’s low birthrate and ageing population. Aso, who doubles as finance minister, told a constituency meeting in Fukuoka, south-west Japan, at the weekend that older people were being unfairly singled out to explain the country’s demographic crisis. “There are lots of weird people who say the elderly are at fault, but that’s incorrect,” Japanese media quoted him as saying. “Rather, those who aren’t giving birth to children are the problem.” “The ageing population, combined with the diminishing number of children, is the grave issue in the mid and long term.” Aso later withdrew the remarks after opposition MPs accused him of insensitivity towards couples who want to have children but are unable to do so. The 78-year-old claimed media had taken his worlds out of context and that he had simple attempted to highlight the threat the declining birth rate poses to Japan’s economic health. But he added: “I’d like to withdraw my comments and will be careful with my words in the days ahead.” Glad to see he apologized, though wouldn’t seppuku be more appropriate considering the extremity of the gaffe? Mr. Aso should have known that the problem with Japan’s declining population is that not enough 78-year-old men (and women) are giving birth. This is common sense and anyone who says otherwise is a sexist bigot! Everyone knows the solution to a declining population is unlimited immigration. As Joe Biden knows better than anyone, that’s how you make your country strong! This article was posted: Friday, February 8, 2019 at 6:29 am
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admin
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https://www.prisonplanet.com/new-outrage-japans-deputy-pm-blames-women-not-giving-birth-for-declining-population.html
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2019-02-08 11:29:06+00:00
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prisonplanet--2019-06-25--Elon Musk Warns of Population Collapse by 2050
| 2019-06-25T00:00:00 |
prisonplanet
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Elon Musk Warns of Population Collapse by 2050
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Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk is warning of a “population collapse.” Musk says to expect the human population to noticeably and significantly drop by the year 2050. Musk’s macabre prediction was triggered by a tweet from a page called World of Engineering that said: “1950 (historical) world population – 2,556,000,053. Current world population – 7,712,343,478. 2050 (projected) world population – 9,346,399,468.” Replying to that tweet on Friday Musk wrote: “Real issue will be an aging and declining world population by 2050, *not* overpopulation.” According to the Economic Times,Musk also shared a Wikipedia link to an article titled, “Projections of population growth.” Wikipedia is about as reliable as CNN (considering anyone can change the information offered at any time) so it would behoove Musk to at least have a better source. However, he might be onto something. Population decline is becoming a concern. Life expectancy is dropping and people just aren’t having as many kids anymore. The SpaceX CEO’s theory is that when an increasingly-elderly global populations clashwith declining birth rates around the world in the near future a “population bomb” would go off, web portal Futurism reported. Musk first broached the topic back in 2017 when Musk replied to a publication saying, “The world’s population is accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care.” Half of the world’s countries have fallen below the replacement rate for developed nations (which is, on average, 2 children per woman), according to a 2017 article by Futurism on Musk’s population decline theory. If this trend continues on, countries like Germany and Italy will see their populations decrease by half over the next 60 years. While an exponentially increasing population is unsustainable, culling human population growth has ethical and moral implications. But if Musk is correct, and human population collapses, we’ll avoid the ethical dilemma while being faced with economic and societal ones. In March of 2017, Musk warned that we face a “demographic implosion,” because in many countries “you have a very high dependency ratio, where the number of people who are retired is very high relative to the number of people who are net producers.” This article was posted: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 5:46 am
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admin
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https://www.prisonplanet.com/elon-musk-warns-of-population-collapse-by-2050.html
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2019-06-25 10:46:50+00:00
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sputnik--2019-09-06--Viktor Orban Lambasts Population Decline in Europe Hails Hungarys Pro-Family Policy
| 2019-09-06T00:00:00 |
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Viktor Orban Lambasts Population Decline in Europe, Hails Hungary's Pro-Family Policy
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As Budapest hosts an international summit on demography this week, attended by several regional leaders and delegations from dozens of countries, the country’s prime minister, Viktor Orban deplored the population decline in Europe while lauding Hungary's pro-family policy, writes the Financial Times. Orban said it was conceivable that Hungary, with a population of just under 10 million and shrinking, due to plummeting birthrates and emigration to EU states further west, could just disappear. “It’s not hard to imagine that there would be one single last man who has to turn the lights out,” Orban said at the opening of the conference on 5 September. Orbán, known for his tough stance on immigration, said other European politicians saw it as the solution, but he firmly rejected this. “If Europe is not going to be populated by Europeans in the future and we take this as given, then we are speaking about an exchange of populations, to replace the population of Europeans with others. There are political forces in Europe who want a replacement of population for ideological or other reasons,” said Orban. Laszlo Kover, the speaker of parliament, added that “having children is a public matter, not a private one,” as he suggested that childless people are “not normal” and “stand on the side of death.” Katalin Novák, Hungary’s minister of state for family, youth and international affairs, echoed Victor Orban’s sentiments: “Europe has become the continent of the empty crib whereas in Asia and Africa they face demographic challenges of the opposite type,” she said. Addressing the Budapest demographics conference, guest of honour and former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, applauded the Hungarian leader for having “the political courage to defy political correctness.” According to Abbott, dying populations, not climate change, were the biggest threat to western civilisation. The two-day summit was also attended by Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, and Serbia’s president, Aleksandar Vučić, who both said boosting birthrates was a priority for their countries. Governments across central Europe have introduced financial incentives for having children. In February, Orban’s government announced generous policies intended to boost the birth rate, including a Ft10 million ($33,500) loan to families that is forgiven if they have three children, and cash incentives for large families to buy seven-seater vehicles. Orban recently said Hungary’s birth rate had increased slightly since 2010, when he began his second term as premier, from 1.2 to 1.5 births per woman. But that remains far below the population replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. Poland is introducing the 500+ scheme, which pays parents 500 złoty (£103) a month per child from the second child onwards. Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, said his country also sought to encourage big families. The UN forecasts claim the top-10 fastest shrinking countries in the world are currently in central and eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Poland, Romania and Hungary, with demographics becoming a key challenge for economic growth in the region. Decline in working-age populations will continue until at least 2060, according to the UN, which is typically forecasting falls of about 3-6 percent per five-year period, and a sharper drop in the case of Poland, from 2045 onwards.
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https://sputniknews.com/europe/201909061076737040-viktor-orban-lambasts-population-decline-in-europe-hails-hungarys-pro-family-policy/
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2019-09-06 10:27:00+00:00
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tass--2019-04-17--Russia must prevent population decline PM Medvedev says
| 2019-04-17T00:00:00 |
tass
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Russia must prevent population decline, PM Medvedev says
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MOSCOW, April 17. /TASS/. Russia must prevent a demographic collapse similar to the one that occurred in the 1990s, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in his annual report to the State Duma (the lower house of parliament) on Wednesday. "Today, we clearly see the consequences of what happened in Russia demography- wise in the 1990s, when the mortality rate exceeded the birth rate," he said. "Demographers even identified this phenomenon as ‘the Russian Cross.’ Unfortunately, not many people were born in the 1990s. We need to prevent another demographic collapse and increase the average life expectancy to 78 years by 2024, taking it to 80 years by 2030," Medvedev specified. He added that the average life expectancy in Russia was rising, reaching nearly 73 years in the previous year and even exceeding the 75-year benchmark in some of the country’s regions. However, in other regions, the average life expectancy is still below 70 years and these regions "require special attention," Medvedev pointed out. The prime minister also said that in 2018, the infant mortality rate dropped by 7.3% and road traffic mortality rates decreased by four percent. In addition, deaths from cardiovascular diseases and tuberculosis has also declined. "This work will definitely be continued, including… measures to support families with children and advance the healthcare sector," Medvedev emphasized. In other media
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2019-04-17 12:29:15+00:00
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tass--2019-08-28--Population in Russia to grow by 2 mln people by 2024 reports Economy Ministry
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tass
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Population in Russia to grow by 2 mln people by 2024, reports Economy Ministry
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MOSCOW, August 28. /TASS/. The Economic Development Ministry expects population in Russia to grow by almost 2 mln people in the next five years. This is according to the ministry’s basic macroeconomic forecast for 2019-2024, the copy of which was obtained by TASS. The ministry notes that this outlook takes into account "the development of measures to support the birth rate." According to the document, the population will increase annually by 0.2-0.5 mln people and will grow from 146.8 mln people this year to 148.7 mln people in 2024. According to the forecast, the number of working-age population will also increase - from 82.0 mln people to 85.3 mln people. At the same time, the number of retired people will decrease from 37.3 mln people to 35.6 mln people. Earlier on Wednesday, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting on federal budget spending for 2020 and the planning period 2021 and 2022, in terms of demography, health, education, science, youth policy and social security, the federal budget will be focused on supporting fertility, helping low-income families and resolving health problems.
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https://tass.com/society/1075462
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2019-08-28 16:36:20+00:00
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theguardianuk--2019-01-27--What goes up are predictions of a population crisis wrong
| 2019-01-27T00:00:00 |
theguardianuk
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What goes up: are predictions of a population crisis wrong?
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She is a well-educated, professional woman, working in an office tower in central Nairobi, Kenya. Because of her status and education, the price required to marry her is bound to be high. Although dowries are often now paid in cash, she expects hers will be paid in the traditional method of cows and goats, and that the wedding will take place in the village she came from. It could take a long time for any suitor to accumulate the capital needed to pay – or at least down-pay – her dowry. She’s fine with that. “We [women] are getting married later,” one of her colleagues explains. “We want an education, job security, and a nice place to live… This also means that we can’t have as many kids, even if we want them.” These remarks offer a window on one of the most compelling questions of our time: how many people will fill the Earth? The United Nations Population Division projects that numbers will swell to more than 11 billion by the end of this century, almost 4 billion more than are alive today. Where will they live? How will we feed them? How many more of us can our fragile planet withstand? But a growing body of opinion believes the UN is wrong. We will not reach 11 billion by 2100. Instead, the human population will top out at somewhere between 8 and 9 billion around the middle of the century, and then begin to decline. Jørgen Randers, a Norwegian academic who decades ago warned of a potential global catastrophe caused by overpopulation, has changed his mind. “The world population will never reach nine billion people,” he now believes. “It will peak at 8 billion in 2040, and then decline.” Similarly, Prof Wolfgang Lutz and his fellow demographers at Vienna’s International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis predict the human population will stabilise by mid-century and then start to go down. A Deutsche Bank report has the planetary population peaking at 8.7 billion in 2055 and then declining to 8 billion by century’s end. The UN discounts the claims of these experts, relying on the authority of experience. “We imagine that countries that currently have higher levels of fertility and lower levels of life expectancy will make progress in the future in a similar manner, at a similar speed, to what was experienced by countries in the past,” John Wilmoth, director of the UN Population Division, says. “It’s all grounded in past experience.” But the dissident demographers think this is wrong, primarily because the UN is failing to account for an accelerating decline in fertility as a result of urbanisation. In 2007, for the first time in human history, the majority of people in the world lived in cities. Today, it’s 55%. In three decades, it will be two-thirds. A lot happens when people move from the countryside into the city. First, a child changes from being an asset – another pair of shoulders to work in the fields – to a burden – another mouth to feed. Even more important, a woman who moves to a city has greater access to media, to schools, to other women. She demands greater autonomy. And many women who are able to exercise control over their own bodies decide to have fewer children. “The brain is the most important reproductive organ,” Lutz asserts. “Once a woman is socialised to have an education and a career, she is socialised to have a smaller family. There’s no going back.” Religious and familial pressures to settle down and make babies also recede in the city; friends and co-workers, who are largely indifferent to one another’s reproductive choices, become more important. Already, almost two dozen countries are getting smaller every year, from Poland to Cuba to Japan, which lost almost 450,000 people in 2018. In these countries, women have fewer than the 2.1 babies that they must produce, on average, for a population to remain stable. The population decline would be even steeper were it not for steadily increasing life expectancy. The fertility rate in the UK is 1.7. Most population growth in the UK today is the result of international immigration, according to the Office of National Statistics. Without immigrants, Great Britain would eventually enter an era of population decline. More old people and fewer young people place an increased strain on society’s ability to generate the wealth and taxes needed to fund, among other things, healthcare for the old. The really big news, however, is found in the large countries of the developing world, where the great majority of people live. There, declines in birth rates have been simply astonishing. China, the world’s largest country, has a fertility rate of 1.5, lower than Britain’s. India, soon to overtake China as the world’s most populous nation, is at the replacement rate of 2.1 and falling. Brazil, the fifth most populous country, has a fertility rate of 1.8. Africa remains the cradle of overpopulation, with fertility rates far above replacement. If the human population truly is heading towards 11 billion people, as the UN predicts, then the African story in this century will be grim; the continent will remain largely poor and rural. Women will be forced to have child after child, swelling the numbers of humanity in the one place on Earth that can least easily sustain them. But this is far too pessimistic a prognosis. Parts of Africa are making great strides in empowering women and reducing the number of children they have. Kenya is one example, though not the only one. The horrific attack by the Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab on a hotel and business complex earlier this month brought home once again the challenges facing this sub-Saharan nation of 50 million. Only about a quarter of its people earn a salary from either a private- or public-sector employer, which is the very definition of a modern workforce. Half the population doesn’t believe it gets enough to eat and about a third reports sometimes going to bed hungry. On the other hand, over 75% of the population have mobile device subscriptions. In the past three decades, the country’s urban population has more than doubled to 32%. And as it urbanises, Kenya’s fertility rate plummets: from 8 in 1960, according to World Bank figures, to 3.4 today, according to a new study of global fertility rates published last November in the Lancet. Almost as many girls as boys sat last year for the exams that permit students to graduate from primary school (at the age of 14, after eight years of formal education). On average, the girls scored better. Many Kenyan women live two lives at the same time. The first is immemorial, agricultural, subsistent and patriarchal. However in her back pocket, she has a mobile phone. And though she hasn’t told her parents yet, she’s planning to move to the city. Elsewhere the fertility rate figures are less encouraging: Niger, 7; Mali, 6; Nigeria, 5. But even there, changes are happening: Nigeria’s fertility rate was almost seven in 1980. Women make up 61% of the members of Rwanda’s parliament, the highest proportion of any government. The fertility rate in that country has plummeted from 8 to 4 in the past 30 years. Sub-Saharan Africa is the fastest urbanising part of the world, with annual urban population increases of 4%, twice the global average. With any luck, Africa in this century will feature urbanisation, better-educated girls and women, and falling fertility. Not everywhere, and not all at once, but in more places than not, and sooner rather than later. From Malthusian predictions at global conferences to the latest dystopian offering from Hollywood, pessimists predict a future of overcrowding, scarcity, conflict and possible collapse. But the premise is probably false. We need to prepare, not for the consequences of a population boom, but a population bust. A child born this decade will probably reach middle age in a world where population growth has stalled, and may already have begun to shrink. There could be much about this world to admire. It may be cleaner, safer, quieter. Urbanisation produces a marked decrease in carbon emissions per person – people using public transport, for example, rather than travelling by car – and as people move to the city, marginal farmland reverts to bush, a natural carbon sink and a boon to wildlife. Economically, however, things could be more challenging, as societies struggle to grow with fewer young workers and taxpayers. Automation will help, but robots don’t buy refrigerators or a smart dress for the office party. Consumption remains the bedrock of any economy. Population decline is not a good thing or a bad thing. But it is a big thing. It’s time to look it in the eye. Darrell Bricker is CEO of the global polling firm Ipsos Public Affairs. John Ibbitson is writer-at-large at the Toronto Globe and Mail. Their book Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline is published by Little, Brown on 5 February (£20). To order a copy for £17.60 go to guardianbookshop.com. Free UK p&p on all online orders over £15
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Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/27/what-goes-up-population-crisis-wrong-fertility-rates-decline
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2019-01-27 11:00:36+00:00
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theguardianuk--2019-06-26--UK population rises to 664 million but rate of growth slows
| 2019-06-26T00:00:00 |
theguardianuk
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UK population rises to 66.4 million but rate of growth slows
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The population of the UK has risen slightly to 66.4 million people but the rate of growth has stalled over the past two years to its slowest increase since 2004, official estimates show. In the year to mid-2018, there were 2% fewer births and 3% more deaths, but the population increased by 0.6% for the second year running, due to a net increase in international migration. Despite a widely held belief that the UK’s vote to leave the European Union in 2016 would lead to a fall in immigration, the figures show international migration continues to increase. The total number of migrants to the UK was 626,000, a 10% increase on the previous year, while the number of emigrants leaving the UK was 351,000, a 3% increase. At 275,000, this net number of immigrants was 6,000 higher than the average for the past five years and 45,000 higher than last year. Over the past five years, net international migration to Britain has ranged between 183,000 and 336,000. Neil Park, the head of the ONS population estimates unit, said the increase in net immigration continued to offset the number of deaths outstripping births. He said: “For the fifth year in a row, net international migration was a bigger driver of population change than births and deaths.” The four local authorities with the fastest-growing populations were all in central London: City of London, Westminster, Camden and Tower Hamlets. The increase in these areas was partly due to higher immigration than other parts of the UK. The number of births recorded in the year to mid-2018 was 744,000, the fewest for more than a decade. The number of deaths was 623,000, the highest number since mid-2000. The figures also confirmed the increasingly aged profile of the population, with the number of those 65 years and over growing faster than those under 65. The number of people aged 65 to 84 increased by 23% to 10.6 million between 2008 and 2018, while the number of people aged 85 and over rose by 22.8% to 1.6 million over the same period. Robin Maynard, of the charity Population Matters, said that despite the stall in the population growth there was no room for “complacency”. He said: “Birth rates and migration fluctuate from year to year but our already unsustainable population is continuing to rise and that will continue until a positive strategy is put in place to address it. “The government has announced ambitious plans to achieve a zero-carbon economy but by ignoring our unsustainable population growth, it is driving with the brakes on. “More people means more emitters and more emissions. Our growing numbers are incompatible with our climate change commitments, the health of our environment and our quality of life.” Aideen Young, evidence manager at the Centre for Ageing Better, said the figures showed how quickly the age structure of the UK’s population was shifting. She said: “Not everyone is enjoying the longer lives that medical and technological advances have afforded us. We need a radical rethink across society – creating age-friendly workplaces, delivering accessible housing everyone can live in, and fostering communities that enable good social connections.”
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Matthew Weaver
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/26/uk-population-rises-to-664-million-but-rate-of-growth-slows
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2019-06-26 12:15:06+00:00
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theindependent--2019-05-04--Japanaposs child population at record low after falling for 38th consecutive year
| 2019-05-04T00:00:00 |
theindependent
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Japan's child population at record low after falling for 38th consecutive year
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Japan‘s child population has declined for the 38th year in a row and is now at a record low, the government said. The number of children younger than 15 stood at 15.22 million on April 1, down 180,000, or 1.2 per cent, from last year, the Statistics Bureau said. It is the lowest number since comparable data became available in 1950. The figures were released ahead of Children’s Day on 5 May. Japan’s birthrate has remained low amid a lack of support for working women, who continue to face the burden of homemaking and other traditional roles, as well as excessively long working hours and high education costs. With children making up just 12.1 per cent of its population, Japan ranks lowest among countries with a population exceeding 40 million, followed by South Korea at 12.9 per cent and Italy and Germany at 13.4 per cent, according to the Statistics Bureau figures. As of 2017, Japanese women on average gave birth to 1.43 children during their lifetimes. That compares with nearly 1.8 in the US and Britain. According to the latest government statistics, the number of births in 2018 fell to 921,000, the lowest since Japan began recording such statistics in 1899. The population is forecast to fall below 100 million by 2050, barring a huge influx of immigrants. Japan last month started allowing more foreign workers to ease a labour crunch. Prime minister Shinzo Abe has said ageing and the low birth rate are a national crisis. He has promised labour and other reforms to help alleviate the burden on families that discourage couples from having more children. Longer life spans in Japan have added to rising costs for elderly care and social security. Conservative legislators in Mr Abe’s government have at times blamed the elderly or childless for long-term demographic trends. Gaffe-prone finance minister Taro Aso had to apologise earlier this year for saying childless people are to blame for Japan’s rising social security costs and declining population.
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Mari Yamaguchi
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-child-population-low-birth-rate-babies-ageing-a8899761.html
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2019-05-04 16:26:29+00:00
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theindependent--2019-06-26--UK population rises to 664m despite highest number of deaths for 18 years
| 2019-06-26T00:00:00 |
theindependent
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UK population rises to 66.4m despite highest number of deaths for 18 years
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The population of the UK has risen to 66.4 million but the growth rate has stalled, official estimates show. The latest calculations have revealed there were an estimated 66,436,000 people living in the country at the end of June last year, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). However, the growth rate remained the same as the previous year. Over the 12 months to the middle of 2018, the UK population rose year-on-year by 0.6 per cent. Neil Park, head of the ONS population estimates unit, said: “For the fifth year in a row, net international migration was a bigger driver of population change than births and deaths. He added: “However, overall population change to the year mid-2018 has remained fairly stable as an increase in net international migration has been roughly matched by the fewest births in over a decade and the highest number of deaths since the turn of the century.” The figures also show the number of births in the year to mid-2018 was 744,000 – the fewest in any year since 2006, and down 2 per cent on the previous 12 months. By contrast, the number of deaths rose 3 per cent to 623,000 – the most since the year 2000. It means natural change in the UK population – the number of births minus the number of deaths – is now at its lowest level since 2004. Net international migration in the year to mid-2018 was 275,000, which was “broadly in line” with the average of the past five years, the ONS said. The four local authorities with the fastest-growing populations are all in central London. The “relatively high level” of population growth in the City of London, Westminster, Camden and Tower Hamlets is “partly a reflection of the increase in net international migration” between mid-2017 and mid-2018, the ONS added. Robin Maynard, of the charity Population Matters, said: “These figures give no grounds for complacency about UK population growth. “Birth rates and migration fluctuate from year to year but our already unsustainable population is continuing to rise and that will continue until a positive strategy is put in place to address it.” He added: “The government has announced ambitious plans to achieve a zero-carbon economy but by ignoring our unsustainable population growth, it is driving with the brakes on. “More people means more emitters and more emissions. “Our growing numbers are incompatible with our climate change commitments, the health of our environment and our quality of life.” Laura Gardiner, research director at the Resolution Foundation think tank, which aims to improve the standard of living, said: “The UK population is ageing particularly fast at the moment because rising life expectancy is being amplified by the large baby boomer generation moving from working age into retirement. “But the rates of change vary greatly across the country. “The large share of pensioners across some coastal parts of the country stands in stark contrast to far younger populations in Britain’s major cities. “This has huge implications for public service provision across the UK, and how those services are funded.”
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Ian Jones, Flora Thompson
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-population-birth-rate-growth-death-office-national-statistics-a8975696.html
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2019-06-26 15:21:00+00:00
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themoscowtimes--2019-07-03--Top Russian Official Warns of Catastrophic Population Loss
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themoscowtimes
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Top Russian Official Warns of ‘Catastrophic’ Population Loss
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Russia has struggled with a demographic crisis in recent years, with population numbers falling for the first time in a decade to 146.8 million last year. Official data for 2019 places Russia’s population at 146.7 million, declining by 149,000 people in the first four months of the year. Russia’s population numbers are declining “catastrophically” with several regions vastly underestimating their death rates, a top government official has said. “That means our birth rates are falling,” Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said on Tuesday, adding that death rates are declining “not as fast as we’d like.” “We’re catastrophically losing the population,” she stressed at talks with medical officials in St. Petersburg, the state-run TASS news agency reported. Golikova blamed the authorities of “many” regions for lowballing mortality figures “in pursuit of good indicators.” The Voronezh region, she said, had submitted cancer death rate figures for 2018 that showed a minuscule growth of 1 percent. By 2019, the increase has ballooned to 20 percent, Golikova was quoted as saying. Last month, the UN forecast that Russia’s population could halve by 2100.
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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/07/03/top-russian-official-warns-of-catastrophic-population-loss-a66259
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2019-07-03 06:56:00+00:00
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naturalnews--2019-01-21--Consumption patterns of people who eat mostly organic foods are linked to better nutritional and hea
| 2019-01-21T00:00:00 |
naturalnews
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Consumption patterns of people who eat mostly organic foods are linked to better nutritional and health profiles
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(Natural News) An increasing number of people are turning towards eating more organic foods because of their economic, environmental, and health benefits. These products, which were grown without the use of harmful pesticides, are considered safer and more nutritious than conventionally grown products. However, there is limited information regarding the direct health benefits of eating organic foods. Previous studies have shown that people who consume organic products have an overall healthier lifestyle compared to non-consumers. However, the majority of these studies only looked at small populations and specific subgroups, such as pregnant women. Moreover, these studies focused only on consumption frequency and not the overall proportion of organic foods in the diet, which is believed to have a more significant impact on health. Putting these into consideration, researchers from the University of Paris 13, Avicenne Hospital, and Aix-Marseille University in France evaluated the effects of the degree of organic food intake on overall diet quality. In their study, which was published in the journal Public Health Nutrition, researchers determined the food intake of more than 28,000 adults using an organic food frequency questionnaire. Afterward, the team divided the participants into five groups depending on the proportion of organic foods in their diet, with the groups having no, occasional, medium, high, or very high levels of organic food intake. The researchers then proceeded to assess overall diet quality based on two scoring methods, namely the modified Programme National Nutrition Santé Guidelines Score and the probability of adequate nutrient intake. The former scores a person’s diet based on how well they adhere to dietary guidelines so it deducts points for consumption that goes beyond the recommended intake. Meanwhile, the latter focuses on whether the diet provides enough nutrients, such as protein, omega-3 fatty acids, fiber, B vitamins, calcium, and many others. Mother Nature's micronutrient secret: Organic Broccoli Sprout Capsules now available, delivering 280mg of high-density nutrition, including the extraordinary "sulforaphane" and "glucosinolate" nutrients found only in cruciferous healing foods. Every lot laboratory tested. See availability here. Upon analyzing the data, the researchers found that people who had higher levels of organic food consumption had an overall better diet quality. This manifested in stricter adherence to nutritional guidelines. The team also found that eating more organic foods leads to higher intake of plant-based foods like vegetables, soup, nuts, and wholegrain products. Meanwhile, there was reduced consumption of unhealthy foods like cookies and soda in groups with higher organic food intake. Overall, these results show that organic food consumption is associated with better dietary behavior and could, therefore, have significant health benefits. However, further studies are needed to establish what these benefits are. (Related: Huge new study proves organic foods are healthier and more nutritious: results immediately attacked by chemical agriculture industry.) The fact that organic foods are free from pesticides is a big enough reason to increase your intake of these foods. This is because a lot of scientific evidence proves that eating foods with pesticide residues can lead to the following health problems: Read more news articles on the benefits of going organic by visiting Organics.news.
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Ellaine Castillo
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http://www.naturalnews.com/2019-01-21-people-who-eat-mostly-organic-have-better-nutritional-health-profiles.html
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2019-01-21 18:17:11+00:00
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naturalnews--2019-02-01--PROVEN Eating organic food lowers cancer risk
| 2019-02-01T00:00:00 |
naturalnews
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PROVEN: Eating organic food lowers cancer risk
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(Natural News) If, like many other people, you’re convinced that organic produce is nothing more than an over-priced and unnecessary fad, you might be intrigued to learn that a study conducted by researchers from France’s equivalent of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, known as Inserm, has confirmed that organic fruit and veg is worth the extra money after all. The research, which was published in the prestigious journal, JAMA Internal Medicine, found that study participants who ate the most organic produce had the lowest incidences of certain types of cancer. Although the researchers stress that other lifestyle factors may have played a part in their findings, the results were still significant enough to warrant further studies and are a good indicator to consumers that eating organic can have a profound effect on one’s health. (Related: Organic produce superior to conventional on every level, study finds.) As reported by Medical Xpress, the Inserm team would ideally have liked to have access to thousands of volunteers who could be divided into two groups: one which ate conventional produce, while the other ate only organic. These volunteers would then be monitored to ensure they were complying with their eating plan, and cancer and other health effects noted over the years. Unfortunately, the team was not able to conduct their research in this way, so they piggybacked onto another health and nutrition study which began back in 2009: They were questioned about 16 categories of foods—including fruits, vegetables, eggs and wine—and how often they ate organic versions of them. Once a year, they provided health updates, including whether they had been diagnosed with cancer. The power of the elements: Discover Colloidal Silver Mouthwash with quality, natural ingredients like Sangre de Drago sap, black walnut hulls, menthol crystals and more. Zero artificial sweeteners, colors or alcohol. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store and help support this news site. By the end of 2016, there were 68,946 French adults who met all of these criteria and were included in the analysis. Based on their questionnaires, the participants were divided into four groups according to the amount of organic produce they regularly ate. This revealed that the people who ate organic food most often had higher incomes, more education and higher-status jobs. They were also more likely to exercise, to have quit smoking, and to eat higher amounts of healthful foods such as fruits and vegetables. All of these things are associated with a lower risk of cancer. The researchers found that cancer was diagnosed in 1,340 of the participants between 2009 and 2016, most commonly breast and prostate cancers. Overall, the participants who ate the most organic produce and made the best lifestyle choices were 25 percent less likely to develop any form of cancer than the volunteers who ate the least organic food. The cancers with the most significant risk reduction were postmenopausal breast cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and all other forms of lymphomas. The researchers believe the risk reduction is likely due to the lack of cancer-causing pesticides like glyphosate, malathion and diazinon on organic produce. (Related: Evidence is “overwhelming,” says EPA scientist, that pesticides contribute to cancer risk.) You often hear of people who have recently been diagnosed with cancer cutting out sugar, switching to organic produce, losing weight and making other significant lifestyle changes. The sad truth, however, is that while these are certainly good changes, they often prove to be “too little, too late.” The best way to beat cancer is to prevent it in the first place, not to try to destroy it once it’s taken a hold in the body. With this in mind, it is important to know exactly which lifestyle changes have the most profound effects on cancer prevention. We have been advised for years that these include maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active, limiting alcohol consumption, not smoking and eating the right kinds of foods. This means avoiding sugar and anything processed; eating organic, free-range meat that comes from animals which have not been given routine hormones or antibiotics; and switching from conventional to organically grown produce. Any extra expense and effort involved in making these changes is well worth it, as this study has once again demonstrated. Learn more at CancerSolutions.news.
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http://www.naturalnews.com/2019-02-01-eating-organic-food-lowers-cancer-risk.html
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naturalnews--2019-02-17--Scientists confirm link between eating organic food and a reduced cancer risk
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Scientists confirm link between eating organic food and a reduced cancer risk
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(Natural News) Organic foods have become increasingly popular over the last few years. However, there are still some people who aren’t convinced that they should shell out a few extra bucks on organic foods. If you’re one of those people, you might start rethinking your decisions now. A recent study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine revealed that people who eat more organic food have a lower cancer risk. The researchers arrived at this finding by analyzing self-reported data from 68,946 adults in France. Participants accomplished questionnaires where they were asked to rate their frequency of eating commonly labeled organic foods from never, occasionally, to most of the time. Their food intake from 16 different categories was determined in the study. These included fruits and vegetables, dairy, meat and fish, eggs, grains, flour, and bread. All of the participants were cancer-free at the beginning of the study, which was in 2009. However, by the follow-up, 1,340 of them had developed the disease. The most prevalent types were breast cancer (459), prostate cancer (180) skin cancer (135), colorectal cancer (99), and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (47). Upon analyzing their data, the researchers found that people who ate the most organic food experienced a 25 percent decrease in their overall cancer risk compared to people who ate the least. This was true even after they considered other factors that could affect cancer risk, including smoking, exercise, and socioeconomic status. Cancer risk reduction was especially high for lymphoma, which was lower by 76 percent overall and 86 percent for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Postmenopausal breast cancer risk also had a significant reduction of 34 percent. The power of the elements: Discover Colloidal Silver Mouthwash with quality, natural ingredients like Sangre de Drago sap, black walnut hulls, menthol crystals and more. Zero artificial sweeteners, colors or alcohol. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store and help support this news site. The primary difference between conventional and organic foods is that the latter are less likely to have pesticide residues. This is because organic farmers have to adhere to a strict set of standards for their produce to be certified as organic. (Related: Organic food has less pesticide content and is healthier than conventional, more science proves.) There is a growing body of evidence that pesticides pose many health risks. These include causing developmental problems in children and neurological diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Additionally, there have been legal cases against pesticide manufacturers claiming that their products caused cancer. By eating organic foods, you can reduce your exposure to these carcinogens. Overall, the results of this study suggest that switching to organic foods can help reduce cancer risk. If you’re still not convinced that you should make the switch, here are more reasons for you to start buying organic food.
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Ellaine Castillo
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http://www.naturalnews.com/2019-02-17-there-is-a-link-between-eating-organic-food-and-a-reduced-cancer-risk.html
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naturalnews--2019-04-09--Yet ANOTHER reason to eat organic food It reduces your risk of getting cancer
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Yet ANOTHER reason to eat organic food: It reduces your risk of getting cancer
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(Natural News) French researchers can give you a scientifically backed reason for why you should switch to an organic diet. In an epidemiological study, they found that participants who ate plenty of organic foods are less likely to develop certain types of cancers, especially when compared to those who eat little or no organic foods. In particular, the chances of developing breast cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and other lyphomas went down. The researchers surmised a connection between this and the reduced amount of synthetic pesticides in the diet of people. In the government-supported study, nearly 70,000 participants answered an online form about their dietary intake of organic food. The survey covered 16 important food groups and asked if the participant brought organic products most of the time, only sometimes, never, or didn’t know if their purchase was organic or not. Based on the number of times a participant bought an organic brand, researchers compiled an “organic food score.” They divided the participants between a “low intake of organic food” group and a “high intake of organic food” group. Then they followed both groups for four years while recording the number of new cancer cases that appeared during the follow-up period. (Related: Kyrgyzstan announces 10-year plan to switch to 100% organic agriculture.) The French researchers performed a thorough analysis of the results of their findings. They finally reported that members of the “high intake of organic food” group showed a 25 percent lower risk of contracting any form of cancer when compared to their low intake counterparts. The power of the elements: Discover Colloidal Silver Mouthwash with quality, natural ingredients like Sangre de Drago sap, black walnut hulls, menthol crystals and more. Zero artificial sweeteners, colors or alcohol. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store and help support this news site. Organic foods are grown without the use of synthetic pesticides. Since they were never sprayed with the chemicals, they are much less likely to contain residues of the toxic compounds. Pesticides have been shown to affect the health of farmers who tend to chemically-treated fields. Agricultural workers exposed to these chemicals are more prone to developing cancer, have a higher chance of dying early, and see more birth defects in their children. There is also a growing body of scientific literature that indicated the risk of cancer increases for people who eat foods that had been treated with synthetic pesticides. Children are particularly at risk. In light of those findings, the 2008-2009 annual report of the President’s Cancer Panel strongly recommended that consumers should get organic food that was never exposed to any chemical pesticide or fertilizer. Choosing to eat organic foods is not just good for your personal health. By supporting organic farming, you can encourage more farmers to switch to a pesticide-free method of agriculture, which would benefit their health as well. And there are also the environmental benefits of not drenching the air, soil, and water with cancer-causing chemicals. One drawback to organically-grown food is that they are more expensive than conventionally-grown counterparts. Not everyone can afford an all-organic diet. Instead, identify which foods in your diet contain the highest amount of pesticides. Then swap those foods out for organic equivalents to maximize the reduction of cancer-causing chemicals. The Environmental Working Group identified strawberries, spinach, kale, nectarines, apples, grapes, peaches, cherries, pears, tomatoes, celery, potatoes, and hot peppers as the most heavily-contaminated produce. Strawberries are the worst offender. Furthermore, conventionally-grown fruits and vegetables retain their tremendous nutritional value despite the taint of pesticides. Numerous studies have shown the health benefits of those foods when it comes to reducing chronic illnesses such as cancer. And if you think about it, most of the fruits and veggies used in those experiments had been grown in conventional farms, so clearly pesticides cannot overwhelm the healing power of healthy foods.
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Edsel Cook
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http://www.naturalnews.com/2019-04-09-organic-food-reduces-your-risk-of-getting-cancer.html
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prepareforchange--2019-01-19--Key Research Eating Organic Foods Cuts Your Cancer Risk and More
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Key Research: Eating Organic Foods Cuts Your Cancer Risk and More!
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Some people laugh at those who make the effort to buy organic foods as often as possible. It’s a waste of money, they say. An organic apple isn’t any healthier than a non-organic apple, they insist. Well, the next time you hear someone spew this baloney, you reference this recent research suggesting showing how beneficial organic can be. Researchers in France say that people who regularly eat organic food have a lower risk of developing cancer than those who don’t. For the study, almost 69,000 adults volunteered to provide researchers with information on how often they ate organic food, drinks, and dietary supplements. Researchers scored the participants based on how often they ate organic food – “most of the time,” “never,” or “I don’t know.” Researchers tracked the volunteers’ cancer diagnoses at 2 points in the study: in 2009 and again in 2016. Breast cancer was shown to be the most prevalent cancer diagnosis, but the team also observed prostate cancer, skin cancer, colorectal cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and lymphoma. Participants who ate the highest amount of organic food were 25% less likely overall to develop cancer than the others. [1] Additionally, the most frequent consumers of organic food had: [2] Julia Baudry, the study’s lead author and a researcher with the Center of Research in Epidemiology and Statistics Sorbonne Paris Cité of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, said: Now, the study doesn’t prove that eating organic reduces your risk of cancer. It could be that people who eat organic food lead healthier lifestyles and there might be an environmental component to the findings, as well. As well, studies relying on self-reporting from participants is less-than-ideal. But still, it’s impossible to deny that striving to live a clean, healthy lifestyle comes with great benefits – even if it means paying a bit extra for food that hasn’t been doused in pesticides. [1] Baudry said that despite the other potentially influential factors not examined in the study, the findings strongly suggest “that an organic-based diet could contribute to reducing cancer risk.” [2] Dr. Frank Hu, chairman of the department of nutrition at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said the study could have been strengthened by the researchers testing pesticide residue levels in participants in order to validate exposure levels. Hu and other nutrition experts at Harvard said the study results “are still preliminary” and they are calling on the U.S. government to fund more long-term studies to confirm the results. And if for some reason you are unable to buy organic foods, that doesn’t mean you should skip out on consuming fruits and veggies. As the American Cancer Society (ACS) notes, eating lots of fruit and vegetables is one of the ways you can lower your risk of cancer, regardless of whether they’re organic or not. You can read more details of the study for yourself online at JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Edward Morgan
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https://prepareforchange.net/2019/01/19/key-research-eating-organic-foods-cuts-your-cancer-risk-and-more/
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prepareforchange--2019-06-04--Why Organic Food is Not Only Good for the Body But the Mind and Soul Too
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Why Organic Food is Not Only Good for the Body, But the Mind and Soul Too
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In this day and age, most are aware that organic food is better for the health of people and the planet. With increasing levels of exposure to toxins in the environment — like the burning of fossil fuels and industrial waste — now more than ever, it’s important to consume a clean diet to keep the body healthy and strong. But while organic food consumption is on the rise, we still have much to learn about the overall benefits for personal and collective health, not only on a physical level, but also mentally and, some say, spiritually too. In 1962, Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring brought the problem of pesticides into the limelight, educating the general public about the exceptional dangers of these chemicals to our health and the environment. Decades later, we may not be in as much active contact with DDT, but we’re exposed to equally harmful pesticides in greater concentrations — much more so than in the past. The Toxics Action Center offers a sobering insight into the issue: “Chronic health effects may occur years after even minimal exposure to pesticides in the environment, or result from the pesticide residues which we ingest through our food and water. A July 2007 study conducted by researchers at the Public Health Institute, the California Department of Health Services, and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health found a sixfold increase in risk factor for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) for children of women who were exposed to organochlorine pesticides.” Moreover, research from the University of Montreal and Harvard University discovered that children who ingest pesticide residues on produce have a two-fold risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) — a syndrome which causes disruptive inattention, abnormally active behavior and impulsivity. The National Cancer Institute also found that American farmers who use agricultural pesticides have a high incidence of Hodgkins disease, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, leukemia, as well as other types of cancer. Likewise, a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology shows “that farmers who use weedkillers are more than twice as likely to suffer from depression than farmers who don’t use the chemicals. And farmers who had higher exposure – through either more hours or longer years using weedkillers – had the greatest risk. And a study published in 2013 revealed that using insecticides is linked with an increased incidence of Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Emanuele Cereda, M.D., Ph.D., and Dr. Gianni Pezzoli, M.D., reviewed the data from 104 studies which were published between 1975 and 2011. What they found is that exposure to pesticides is linked with a 58% increased risk of developing the disease. Certain herbicides and fungicides actually double Parkinson’s disease risk. The chemicals are also associated with: That’s not all. Pesticides also destroy the environment. As I wrote in Here’s What Happens When you Eat a 100% Organic Diet: “The toxins damage agricultural land by harming beneficial insects, soil microorganisms and worms — all of which contribute to healthy soil and naturally limit detrimental pests. Plant root and immune systems are also negatively impacted by pesticides, as are concentrations of important nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous.” When we look at the big picture, science presents a strong argument for eating organically if we would like to promote health of our bodies and mind, along with safeguarding the environment. But can an organic diet help us spiritually too? Susan Bass is a teacher and practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine and believes in “energetics” of food, the theory that specific foods can balance and enrich the mind, body and spirit. “Nature is an aspect of the divine,” she says. “When we move with the rhythms and cycles of nature, when we sleep, get up and eat what is in season, we connect with the divine.” She adds, “Nature is always providing exactly what our bodies need to thrive. “That is why eating locally grown, fresh, organic food is so important. The food that grows in our area is what the creatures here need to stay in balance with the earth.“ As it turns out, both Bass and Kelly might be on to something. Using Kirlian photography, researchers have discovered the energy fields of organic foods emit “a clearly more vibrant and harmonious energy field than conventional foods.” Ripe, just picked organic produce had the strongest energy field. “Raw foods also fared better in the energy department than cooked and pasteurized foods, the latter of which appeared duller and less uniform than their raw counterparts.” Some believe this energy field represents a food’s “life source” and that consuming such high vibrational food, that’s not over-processed or pesticide-ridden, keeps us healthy and strong — both physically and mentally, as well as spiritually. So dig in and reap the benefits of locally grown, organic food. Your body, mind and soul will thank you. This article has been sourced from Wake Up World Disclaimer: We at Prepare for Change (PFC) bring you information that is not offered by the mainstream news, and therefore may seem controversial. The opinions, views, statements, and/or information we present are not necessarily promoted, endorsed, espoused, or agreed to by Prepare for Change, its leadership Council, members, those who work with PFC, or those who read its content. However, they are hopefully provocative. Please use discernment! Use logical thinking, your own intuition and your own connection with Source, Spirit and Natural Laws to help you determine what is true and what is not. By sharing information and seeding dialogue, it is our goal to raise consciousness and awareness of higher truths to free us from enslavement of the matrix in this material realm.
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Edward Morgan
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https://prepareforchange.net/2019/06/03/why-organic-food-is-not-only-good-for-the-body-but-the-mind-and-soul-too/
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2019-06-04 01:36:38+00:00
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thesun--2019-11-27--Inside Hollyoaks star Ruby McDonnell’s stunning family home with Buddha statues, brick interior and
| 2019-11-27T00:00:00 |
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Inside Hollyoaks star Ruby McDonnell’s stunning family home with Buddha statues, brick interior and funky wallpaper
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HOLLYOAKS star Ruby McDonnell spends her time off screen enjoying the creature comforts of her family home. The 19-year-old actress, who plays Peri Lomax on the Channel 4 soap, often treats fans to glimpses of the home – revealing her unique sense of style. Her bedroom is particularly eye-catching thanks to a white brick wall, which looks very stylish against her white floor. Ruby has added touches of comfort with a rug, teal stool and pictures of her memories stuck to the walls. The dining room is just as chic with its silver print wallpaper and glass light fixtures. The living area – where Ruby hangs out with her mates – also features a patterned wallpaper, while family pictures adorn the walls. Outside and the garden offers plenty of space for their beloved dog to run around and there is even a Buddha statue for decoration. Ruby’s Hollyoaks character has recently been involved in a huge storyline as she helped get Ste away from a far right group. She has appeared on the soap since 2013 and has had some very big moments to date. She auditioned twice for the role and after she got it, her mum said: "When we got the call I started crying and then we started jumping up and down in the kitchen. “The more I see the scripts the more I think Ruby is quite similar to her character Peri and I think she's fitted in well with the family.” Fans will probably best remember Peri for falling pregnant with her boyfriend Tom Cunningham when she was just 14. She struggled with the baby and left the baby on Angela’s door step. Peri then faked a pregnancy after she slept with Prince to try and break him and Lily up. After surviving being homeless she struck up a romance with Harley, who she is still with. Not surprisingly she has had a number of awards nominations and won Best Young Performance at the 2016 British Soap Awards.
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10433510/inside-hollyoaks-star-ruby-mcdonnell-home/
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birminghammail--2019-05-02--The 5 interior design tips to transform your home
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The 5 interior design tips to transform your home
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Whether you're moving into a new house or you're simply looking to revamp your rooms, Spring is the perfect time to spruce up your home. But unless you're an interior designer, it can be difficult to know where to start. With the help of family-run furniture store Cousins, we’ve pulled together these handy hints and tips that can help you to transform your living space. Furniture makes a home; it is the comfy sofa you come back to at the end of a long day, the dining room table where you and your family enjoy mealtime chatter and the bed where you lay your head each night. In a world of fast fashion and disposable products, it can be easy to forget the importance of quality; however, if selected correctly, furniture can stand the test of time. Instead of breaking after a year’s use, that sofa, bed or table could be something that lasts for years to come, so make sure you invest in quality pieces that you love. Whatever atmosphere you are trying to create in a specific room, it's important to remember that colour can completely change the mood. And this isn't just limited to the walls; the colours of your sofa, rugs, lights and decor should all tie into this. It may seem tempting, but you don't have to stick to black, white and grey. Rather, a monochrome palette can be made much more exciting with a burst of colour. If you're a crafty person, try making a mood board with snippets of patterns of fabric and shades of paint that you are thinking of using. This can be a good way to visualise how all the different elements will work together. Alternatively, get some inspiration at a showroom. Cousins' team of in-house experts will be on hand to advise on styles, colours and prices - to find those items that are just perfect for you. You've considered colours, but what about the material? Whether you’re looking for a smart leather sofa, a sleek and luxurious velvet chair or a plush fluffy rug, layering different textures is a great way to add depth and personality to a room. It's not just about how something looks either, the upholstery can affect comfort and warmth, and require different levels of maintenance. Cousins has created a handy upholstery buying guide which gives hints and tips about the benefits of each material and what care they need. Just like colour, lighting can totally transform the look and feel of your home, making it feel inviting, cosy or sleek. It's important to choose lights and lamps that will complement the natural sources of light in the room. You want to be able to adjust the lighting to adapt to different settings and times of day. So having a range of light sources is a key consideration. Tripod and large desk-style floor lamps are key trends for this year. Also consider buying brass and metal accented pieces or those with a metal cage for a real contemporary feel. Your home should reflect you and your personality. So don't be scared to go bold, choose statement pieces that you love and will get your guests talking. In order to find those pieces of furniture that are perfect for you, it's important to go and see how they look in real life, feel the fabric and test out the comfort. Locals can check out a large range of quality furniture and accessories at Cousins large showrooms or via their website. Shop the fulll range of products at Cousins' showrooms in Birmingham and Dudley which are open daily. For more information visit: cousinsfurniture.co.uk.
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Maya Black
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https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/special-features/interior-design-cousins-furniture-birmingham-16033309
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eveningstandard--2019-01-16--The new interiors trends to watch out for in fabrics paint and papers
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The new interiors trends to watch out for in fabrics, paint and papers
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Today is the first day of the quirky Déco Off interiors show in Paris. The tenth edition, it runs until Monday and is open free to all with the late night on Saturday to 11pm. That’s Paris for you. Bustling and friendly, it fills an ancient tangle of showrooms and pop-ups around two quaint streets on opposing sides of the Seine. Visitors include store buyers, interior designers and lovers of home design the world over. London brands are out in force and there’s a lot to be proud of in terms of originality, variety and expertise. From Japanese woodcuts and brutalist buildings to studio ceramics, greenhouse gardening or a Russian palace, each collection has a unique take. You don’t just buy a pattern, you buy into a story, with endless options for layering papers, prints, weaves and trimmings. Designers have done the hard work so that decorating is a doddle. New designs from the UK are simultaneously on sale in Paris and London, and Style Library is pulling out the stops. This umbrella brand has a clutch of décor labels, from Sanderson, so quintessentially English, to the more exotic Zoffany and treasured Morris & Co. It also includes Scion, Anthology and Harlequin. Its cosy little period showroom on the Rue de Mail goes into a state of siege, as foreign buyers crowd in. “The Europeans love our heritage and craftsmanship,” says general manager David Butcher, “and no amount of Brexit is going to change that.” Sanderson’s Glasshouse is a glorious riot of big botanicals. At Zoffany, design manager Peter Gomez has turned to art, with Bauhaus abstracts and pencil sketches. Harlequin takes its cue from mid-century pottery studios with its Atelier collection, painting by hand for a feeling of craft. The tropical trend is not wilting yet, though it has outgrown kitsch flamingos and overblown blooms. Zanzibar by Scion is a fresh take, amid palms teamed with that brutalist Barbican concrete. Immersed in island life are Lee and Emma Clarke, of Clarke & Clarke, now also part of Style Library. Their Paris pop-up is draped with Exotica: see birds-of-paradise, leaves and flowers on velvet, linen, embroidery and intricate weaves. Colour zings and hums, from kingfisher and teal to softer slate, amethyst, mineral grey and blush. Star of the Romo group’s Paris showroom is Japanese woodcut artist Katsutoshi Yuasa whose prints on delicate washi paper have morphed into fine-lined abstracts and florals. GP & J Baker are celebrating craftsmanship with handblocks and embroideries. They’ve fittingly called it Artisan. Channel-hopping for a Paris pop-up are Tim Butcher and Lizzie Deshayes of Fromental, commandeering an art gallery for an Orient Express, where compartments have glossy wallcoverings redolent of Parisien Art Deco lacquerware. Bernie de Le Cuona, of Chelsea Harbour and Pimlico Road, is taking over a Paris gallery. Her passion is fine fibres — Belgian linen, soft alpaca from Peru, Mongolian cashmere, Chinese silk and top-notch Australian wool. She went to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg and the Royal Garden in Versailles and then did Wanderlust, 10 new fabrics for discerning decorators everywhere. Meanwhile, The Rug Company of London is presenting US decorator Martyn Lawrence Bullard. North London wallpaper wizards Cole & Son, past masters of block printing, are doing fabrics with their best-loved patterns from decades past, plus new surrealistic wallpapers from Italian art house Fornasetti. Paint people Little Greene have added delightful period London wallpapers to their ongoing edit. Think floral, think Designers Guild, ever pushing the petals into something fresh and different. New for spring are bouquets of peonies and ranunculi, hand-painted in photo-realistic detail. “Paris is our second home,” says founder/director Tricia Guild. “We’ve been there for nearly 30 years and France is our oldest export market. The French adore colour, florals, print and pattern.” Huge wallpaper panels with two 3m drops on a roll look more like murals than conventional wallpaper with its evident repeat patterns. This is a burgeoning trend, which you’ll also find at Osborne & Little, currently celebrating 50 years in business. Its stunning wallpanels will make an instant bower of giant orchids and magnolias: “Glamour and style, big-time. The Europeans will love it,” says Graham Noakes, sales and marketing director.
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Barbara Chandler
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https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/hot-new-interiors-trends-the-london-brands-taking-paris-by-storm-at-quirky-design-show-d-co-off-a4040961.html
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eveningstandard--2019-02-01--Best interior design websites The super cool online homeware and furniture shops for 2019
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Best interior design websites: The super cool online homeware and furniture shops for 2019
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Bored of looking at the same old interior websites again and again? Need a little new inspiration? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. We’ve sourced some of the best lesser-known interiors shopping sites to bring you a host of new home decor ideas. Because, well, there’s only so many times you can look at Zara Home, love it though we do. If you’re looking for something really original, these interior websites are where it’s at. Personally-sourced products with character that are unique, different and high quality. If you want to add some colour to your home, French website Cool Machine is perfect for bright decorative ceramics and objects; head over to Jonathan Adler if you’re after some American-influenced contemporary glamour; check out the stunning Merve Kahraman for one-off investment pieces; or click on Hurn & Hurn and Audenza for quirky homeware and gorgeous gifts. Scandi-lover? You can while away the hours browsing at the Scandinavian Design Centre or Cloudberry Living, both of which stock iconic big brands and emerging Nordic designers. It’s a feast for the eyes. There’s also fab affordable art sites, gorgeous wallpaper, tiles, reclaimed and lighting specialists, as well as vintage websites and urban retro gurus. Discover our round up of the best niche interior design websites below: This is, quite simply, a haven for Scandi style lovers. It stocks thousands of products from top designers like Ferm Living, House Doctor, Georg Jensen, Bloomingville and many more. Here, you can get your Nordic-loving mitts on iconic Moomin mugs, tufted and woven rugs, cosy Swedish wool throws, stunning pastel stoneware pieces from the likes of Broste Copenhagen, and sleek, contemporary, minimal furniture for every room in your house. It’s basically your one-stop Scandi shop. Good luck not spending hours - and probably quite a lot of cash - on here. If you feel you’re stuck in a bit of a neutral style rut, this interior design website is the antidote for you. It’s a vibrant melting pot of bold and bright concept pieces, from ceramics and decorative objects like lamps, flower pots and vases, to cushions, wall hangings, posters and stationery. It showcases handcrafted creations from emerging designers, mixing contemporary design and vintage aesthetics. It’s unusual, colourful, creative and, above all, ‘cool’. This luxurious online interior design store uses three words to describe its aesthetic: ‘Modern American Glamour’. Its motto? ‘If your heirs won’t fight over it, we won’t make it.’ It’s the place to purchase unique pieces that you won’t see at every Tom, Dick and Harry’s house. From small statement objects like a technicolour lightning bolt tray, to large investment pieces like marble and brass cocktail tables, it’s your go-to glamour destination. Merve Kahraman’s stunning interiors website was created via an MA in product design from London’s Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design and work placements at the likes of Tom Dixon. No surprise, then, that her pieces are design-led, completely unique, and utterly stunning. All the products are handcrafted by artisans in Istanbul with the finest-quality materials. You can find beautiful furniture, like an American walnut, leather and brass work/makeup desk with an Art Deco-esque round mirror, as well as dinosaur egg lamps, accent chairs with bunny ears, and pizza-inspired marble coffee tables. Our heads were completely turned by the Revitaliser wax lamp, which melts and recreates itself over time. After spending eight years setting up and managing Sir Richard Branson’s ski chalet in Verbier, Hannah Allen had a lightbulb moment - a one-click interior design store for chalets. The Chalet Shop offers a full interior design service if you’re lucky enough to own a ski cabin. However, it’s also a great place to shop if you just love the lodge-luxe look and want it in your own home. Everything you need for an Alpine escape vibe is here, from natural hides and furs, cosy lanterns, and fireside storage, to rustic-charm dining tables and beds. We’ve definitely got cabin fever. Audenza is the self-confessed interior design website for the ‘fabulous and fearless’. Large brass palm tree floor lamp, anyone? You’ll find it here. In fact, you’ll come across a plethora of tropical pieces, from animal candles holders and animal head wall mounts, to flamingo plates and prints, jewel-toned chairs and jungle-print lampshades. It’s exoticism mixed with a sense of the Hollywood golden age. Go on, be bold. Lime Lace is an online interiors boutique selling eclectic and personally-sourced home accessories and gifts. It has an extensive range of statement lighting, unique wallpapers, and art prints. They specialise in one-of-a-kind pieces by designers from around the world, with a focus on personality and uniqueness. We particularly love the range of premium art from MINDTHEGAP, an uber-cool eclectic homeware brand. You’ll find abstract, contemporary, vintage and tropical prints in their curated collection. This interior design website’s tagline is ‘discover the unusual’, and that sums up what’s on offer nicely. But it’s unusual in a good way, with gorgeous gifts and homewares that are different but also on-point. They stock big-name brands you’ll recognise, like Bloomingville and Garden Trading, but also gorgeous lesser-known names, including I Like Birds, who do fab vintage-style animal-print tea towels and coasters. There’s also Sew Heart Felt, who create amazing animal mobiles for the kiddies, and, for the grown-ups, we love the pretty Pip Studio ceramics and the super-cool aluminium ornaments by Diesel Living with Seletti, which includes a life-size skeleton hand. Homeplace stocks an eclectic but considered mix of vintage, mid century, retro and contemporary homewares, including eye-catching and unique pieces of furniture, lighting and other home accessories. Passionate about supporting emerging artists whilst bringing affordable art to their customers, they also stock a large selection of prints, which is one of the most popular sections of the site. Think modern, contemporary, abstract pieces, including the human form, geometric prints, and botanical representations. Sort of like an indie version of Trouva, Oostor is a start-up online marketplace selling products from unique, hard-to-find brands and emerging designers from around the world. You’ll find innovative home accessories, inspiring wall art and creative products for your home, like neon cactus table lamps and folding geometric chairs. Yes, really. Your entire home furnished in a few clicks. Vintage fan? You’re going to adore this antiques treasure trove. Vinterior is an online marketplace for remarkable vintage and antique furniture, with over 100,000 unique items. They unearth the originals and celebrate the one-offs, from sideboards to mirrors, lighting to drinks trolleys, mid century to neoclassical - if it’s vintage you’re after, you can find it here. For stunning timeless pieces in a muted, natural colour palette created with high-quality materials, look no further than Rowen & Wren. A couple-run business, the stylish online interiors store stocks a thoughtfully sourced collection of distinctive homewares, from gorgeous hardware to elegant linen sofas and rustic-charm garden furniture. Their focus on eclectic design and simple functionality means everything they sell sits as comfortably in an urban loft as a country retreat. Bringing Scandinavian style to the UK since 2007 with iconic brands like Littala, Ferm Living and Pappelina, this online interiors site is dedicated to all things Nordic - beauty in minimalistic design and functionality - but also stocks emerging artists from across the globe with a similar ethos. You’ll find gorgeous gifts, clean-line lighting, blankets and throws to hygge-up your home, decorative objects, stylish furniture and plenty more. If you love that cool modern rustic country interiors look - à la Soho Farmhouse - but don’t know where to start looking, make Bert & May your first stop. It’s choc-a-bloc with great inspiration - their Instagram page is brilliant - and has a lovely range of reclaimed wood for flooring and wall cladding, as well as a fab selection of handmade tiles, including plain and printed, encaustic, terracotta and salvaged pieces. Trust us, you’ll fall in love. Urban, retro, unique: three words that describe this online interiors store in a nutshell. Their furniture collection is so original, and includes everything from Vespa Scooter chairs to a red tractor bar and home office desk. There’s also unique gifts like gold decorative objects (spaceships, skulls, and robots galore), cool neon signs, skull lamps, cowhide doorstops, and, if you’re feeling really generous, an industrial football table. It’s urban vintage heaven. If it's industrial-chic lighting you’re after, make Industville your next stop. The makers of handcrafted, high-quality vintage-edge lights have styles to suit everyone, in all different shapes and finishes, from wall-mounted cage lights to statement galvanised kitchen pendants. And if you want something completely unique, they also offer a bespoke lighting service, allowing you to create your own light design. You're in good company, because they not only light up homes all around the world, but also supply to top hotels, restaurants, shops and cafes. What's more, they offer next day delivery, free shipping, free returns and prices start at just £29. What are you waiting for? After looking around its site in wide-eyed wonder - and creating a wish-list as long as a leg - the Scandinavian Design Centre has to be up there for its sheer breadth of brilliant brands and products with such a large-reaching appeal. We could literally furnish our entire home with pieces bought solely from here. Send help. ES Best product reviews are unbiased, independent advice you can trust. On some occasions, we earn revenue if you click the links and buy the products, but we never allow this to bias our coverage. The reviews are compiled through a mix of expert opinion and real-world testing. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter
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Ruth Doherty
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2019-02-01 16:46:00+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-02-02--Interiors trend to watch block colour and mid-century revival
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Interiors trend to watch: block colour and mid-century revival
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Spring comes early in the interiors world, with all eyes on French design fair Maison et Objet which took place in Paris in January. This important trade show not only spotlights influential designers but also key trends for the year ahead. Styles that set to make an appearance in 2019 vary from the use of raw natural materials to soft pastel colour palettes and glitzy glamorous decor. Multi-award winning German designer Sebastian Herkner was named designer of the year by Maison et Objet, an amazing achievement that comes as no surprise when you learn that he collaborated with powerhouses like Moroso, Dedon, Thonet and Lintello in 2018 alone. His work merges modern technologies and established craftsmanship, drawing from global cultural influences and sustainable materiality. One of Herkner’s past creations that really caught our eye was the Pastille table for edition van Treeck. For us the most influential aspects of the designer's work are his eye for colour and the reinterpretation of classic design. At any level, quality design depends on an investment in form and materiality and this is something Herkner gets so right. This, combined with strong block hues and a modern day take on mid and late 20th century manufacturing is something to be embraced by all. Anything is taste dependant, but investing in bold, statement pieces old and new that will last a lifetime is everything. We’ve chosen a mix of new 50s and 80s inspired items below that will look great when mixed with refurbished vintage pieces. Made in Portugal, the Sawyer orange reactive glazed stoneware salad bowl adds a shot of vibrant colour to an alfresco table setting. The navy velvet ottoman is crafted using luxurious Italian velvet, made from 100 per cent cotton. With its contemporary lines and comfort, the Hackney sofa strikes the perfect balance between modern and traditional styling. The Bubbles tumblers are handmade from recycled glass and are perfectly mixed and matched for everyday use. A colourful and bold risograph print, adding a touch of creativity to any room. Characterised by the coloured buttons on the cushion, Hay’s Dot cushion has become a design classic in many homes. Each item is hand cast, sanded and sealed in the Nottingham studio and finished with felt pads underneath. This Variations rug is an original design by British abstract artist and royal academician, Sir Terry Frost, which has been beautifully transformed into a hand-knotted rug by Christopher Farr. Att Pynta are design columnists for the Evening Standard. Catch them at The Liberty Loft pop-up which launched on January 25 and will run for six weeks.
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Att Pynta
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https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/design/att-pynta-block-colour-mid-century-revival-a4055631.html
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2019-02-02 11:59:53+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-03-21--Where to get free expert interiors advice in London
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Where to get free expert interiors advice in London
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Despite the ease of online shopping, Londoners still want one-to-one design advice for expensive items such as sofas, as well as real-life, real-time inspiration. Stores are queuing up to help. John Lewis has long offered free in-store advice sessions, but the company recently asked 3,400 people how they use their living rooms. Watching TV is top, but while more than half spend whole days glued to the set, a fifth are on the phone at the same time while a third fall sleep. From eating to downing cocktails, to exercising, painting our nails, grooming pets and “snuggling up with a duvet”, we do everything in our living rooms, so we want furnishings that adapt. To help visualise all this, the store has commissioned five living room capsules, on show at the Oxford Street flagship for 10 weeks with the designers on hand. Artist Morag Myerscough’s flamboyant room has vibrant pink walls, a mustard sofa and giant footstool. It’s a lot like her Hoxton home – she has even raided her own walls for artwork. “Don’t be afraid of what you like, whether bright colours or patterns. Just go for it.” Myerscough will do workshops in store on April 18, tickets £15. The living room next door is by Emily Coxhead. She created The Happy Newspaper, with issue 13 out this month and 8,000 copies printed (thehappynewspaper.com). Coxhead has replicated the desk and shelving of her Lancashire home office, with dark grey and pastel pink walls, plus neat sofas with rainbow cushions. Meet her in store this Friday. The room by Shoreditch’s Geffrye Museum of the Home has strong midcentury vibes. “Home is a treasure store of gifts, heirlooms, purchases,” says Vanessa Meade, Geffrye curator. A museum team will be in store on March 29. London DJ and TV presenter AJ Odudu offers luxe, with green velvet sofa, velvet curtains and a marble table, perfect for entertaining, while John Lewis home design stylist Jacqueline Dalgarno fills her space with soothing natural materials, neutrals, and plants. Customers can book a free 90-minute session with home designers at John Lewis, talk through ideas and problems, go on a shopping tour and use in-store blinds and curtain makers and carpet fitters. The store also has a “home solutions service” to recommend vetted tradespeople (homesolutions.johnlewis.com). Scroll through the gallery above to see the John Lewis capsules and discover more London stores offering free face-to-face interiors advice.
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Barbara Chandler
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https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/where-to-get-interior-design-advice-experts-are-on-hand-at-john-lewis-ikea-designers-guild-and-a4097696.html
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2019-03-21 17:50:57+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-03-25--The best flexible furniture and interior design hacks for small spaces
| 2019-03-25T00:00:00 |
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The best flexible furniture and interior design hacks for small spaces
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The dilemma of how to furnish small rooms and awkward corners to make the space feel bigger is one of the most difficult interior design challenges to solve. And it's a universal problem for tiny flat dwellers across London and beyond. However, compact living doesn't have to mean compromising on style. Following a 50 per cent increase in customer searches for 'small space furniture', homeware giant Habitat has joined forces with Homewings, a community of expert designers offering online advice and insider tips on making the most out of even the smallest of rooms. For those needing help to solve a small space challenge, head to Habitat's Tottenham Court Road store this Saturday 30 March (11am-1pm), where Homewings and Habitat will be hosting a special interior design consultation. Take along photos and floorplans for the experts to help you plan your home redesign. If you can't make it to an in-store appointment, here are five of the best small space hacks from the experts: One of biggest challenges of moving into a small flat or any property with a narrow doorway is being able to actually get large pieces of furniture, such as beds, sofas and wall units, inside. It's not unheard of for entire window frames to be removed in order to squeeze in a bulky sofa. "Sofas are one of the largest pieces of furniture in any home so if you're limited on space, think carefully about the style you're going for," says Cornelia de Ruiter, the founder of Homewings. "One clever trick is to allow daylight to flow through a room — and easy access for awkward stairwells — is to invest in a sofa without any arms" Open-plan layouts in modern flats and studios mean living areas and bedrooms can share the same space, so there's an art to ensuring these zones don't merge together. One way to minimise wasted space is to invest is in a bed which folds up against the wall, or a day bed which can double up as a sofa. "Multi-functional designs that provide two functions in a very small footprint will be your friend in a compact home. Dining tables are always space hungry, so if there are only two of you most days opt for a folding table design that will cater for you on a minimal footprint during the week but the can turn into a dinner party extraordinaire come the weekend," says de Ruiter. The Scandinavian-inspired, mid-century modern look continues to be a key interiors trend. Key characteristics of the much-loved timeless look include low-sitting designs, clean lines and classic appeal, which helps to create the illusion of a much larger room. Opting for skinny framed or glass furniture allows all-important daylight to flow right through a room, while heavier set furniture can block out the light, punctuating a room. Light woods, colours and metallic surfaces all help to reflect light, which opens up a room and adds a more spacious feel. Mirrors add light to a room and make spaces look brighter and wider, so be sure to place them opposite a window to make the most of the reflections to brighten a naturally dark room. Place your mirror strategically to act as a statement centrepiece, deflect sight lines from crowded areas or opposite windows to brighten a dingy area, suggests de Ruiter. Make the use of height to free up the floor space in open-plan spaces to eliminate clutter. Put the belongings you don't use to often at the top of a cabinet with the everyday items more easy to reach at the bottom. "Vertical lines are a fundamental part of giving your space a sense of height. By using a linear wallpaper print or adding a tall lamp or lengthy mirror, you’re diverting your sight line away from the main body of the room to the emptier heights of the ceiling," says de Ruiter. "Look for tall multi-functional furniture designs that incorporate multiple levels of shelving upwards, allowing the floor to remain clear and appear larger to the eye." Scroll through our gallery above to see the right furniture to help make the most of your compact home...
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Sophie Warner
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https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/small-space-hacks-the-best-flexible-furniture-and-interior-design-tricks-to-maximise-in-your-home-a4100516.html
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2019-03-25 17:56:00+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-04-11--How to choose the right rug for a room according to interiors experts
| 2019-04-11T00:00:00 |
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How to choose the right rug for a room according to interiors experts
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The simple addition of a rug can bring colour, warmth and style to a room, completely switching it up. They work particularly well with a wooden floor, offering a fast way to make the space feel cosy. Use rugs to express your creativity – and don’t be afraid to layer them up and let the colours contrast, or even clash. First you need to look at the arrangement of your room and decide whether you would like the rug to go under furniture or in the middle of the space, as a statement. "When shopping for a rug it's really important to consider the location of where it will be placed and, therefore, its suitability for the area,” says Charlotte Archer-Tozer, furnishing accessories buyer at John Lewis. “If you place the rug in a hallway with high traffic, we would suggest a robust solution. Flat woven options work well in this type of setting, particularly in natural wool or cotton.” This woven rug from Homesense, pictured above, priced £49.99, will be hardwearing, making it a great option for a room that sees a lot of people come and go – such as a conservatory. A vintage Persian-inspired rug might get all the likes on Instagram but the chances are it won't keep its stylish looks for very long in a busy home. The ideal rug has to work hard for you. "For all-round use in living spaces, wool is a wise choice as it’s pretty durable and can be cleaned well,” advises Simon Goff, director of specialist maker Floor Story. "For family homes, more delicate fibres such as silk and cotton should probably be treated with extra care, at least in a dominant blend, as they can be tougher to clean." Inspired by the work of iconic film-maker Wes Anderson, this leopard print rug from Floor Story, priced from £1,650, is made from wool and bamboo. A rug should always make a statement — so make sure your choice fills the room. “Small rugs can look bitty and mean in the wrong space," says Suzanne Sharp, co-founder of The Rug Company. "Always go for the largest size you can, as it gives a generous, calming effect to the room and will allow you to place furniture such as sofas half on it, giving a wonderfully luxurious and flowing feel to the space.” This dusty pink rug from West Elm, priced from £499, is big enough to layer, giving your room a unique look. Scroll through our gallery above and discover how to use rugs to their best effect into your home...
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Sophie Warner
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https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/how-to-choose-a-rug-style-your-floor-space-with-help-from-the-experts-a4112356.html
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2019-04-11 09:01:00+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-07-18--Aldi launches two new summer interiors collections at bargain prices
| 2019-07-18T00:00:00 |
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Aldi launches two new summer interiors collections at bargain prices
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For Aldi fans, the highlight of the weekly shop is a rummage down the coveted middle aisle which is home to the supermarket's 'special buys' section. This treasure trove of oddities is responsible for many a seasoned shopper emerging from the store with a yoga mat, kettle or even a lawnmower along with the grocery shop. Now, the supermarket is launching special buys on two homeware ranges in consecutive weeks. But you'll have to be quick, as once products have sold out, they won't be back. Launching first is the botanical-inspired collection called Summer Tropics. Full of bright patterns and tropical prints, the range includes quirky lemon or watermelon doormats, priced from £2.99. Give your bedroom a seasonal lift with a palm leaf duvet set from the collection, priced from £9.99. Mint green fitted sheets are priced at £3.99, while matching cushions, priced at £6.99 each, will complete the look. The Summer Tropics collection will be available in store on July 28, but you can pre-order online from July 21. This Scandi-inspired collection is perfect for giving your living room a makeover on a budget. The black grid-style mirror, priced at £49.99, is a clever way to make a room feel bigger as reflected light creates the illusion of more space. Give your sofa an update with a selection of scatter cushions, available in various shapes and sizes, they are priced at £6.99 each. For those who struggle to keep houseplants alive, faux succulents can be bought for £12.99. A simple way to start your own plant family. Finally, the grey geometric bean cube can be used as a stool or a footrest, priced at just £29.99. The collection is available online from July 28 but you'll have to wait until August 1 to buy it in store.; Scroll though our gallery above to see more of both the ranges...
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Sophie Warner
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https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/aldi-special-buys-this-weeks-interior-and-homeware-offers-are-perfect-for-a-summer-home-makeover-a4192966.html
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2019-07-18 09:59:00+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-08-15--Best unusual table lamps 20 statement table lamps that will transform your home interior
| 2019-08-15T00:00:00 |
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Best unusual table lamps: 20 statement table lamps that will transform your home interior
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Whether you rent or own, expressing your personality through décor is the quickest route to make a space yours. Wallpapering or painting walls can be costly and messy, and it could mean breaching your tenancy agreement, but there are small changes you can make to ensure your haven from the world is the chilled oasis you want it to be. Lighting can change the mood of a room in a flash, transforming it from brashly lit to a space bathed in an inviting glow. It’s worth the investment even if you rent, because a bare ceiling bulb is never en vogue. But shopping for a lighting needn’t be a chore. There are plenty of fun designs out there that promise to inject some character into your space. From quietly quirky to works of art that just so happen to come with a lightbulb, we’ve rounded up the best table lamps to light up your life and your home. From blow the budget to bargain, here’s our edit of the best statement table lamps. House of Hackney is full of so many incredible homeware pieces it can be difficult to decide just where to splurge. Thankfully this dino statement lamp has made things a little clearer because since we spotted it, it's shot straight to the top of our shopping lists. The base and shade are also available to buy separately too. Merve can do no wrong when it comes to creating fantastically original, forever interesting and downright beautiful designs. The Min Lilla Viking 2 Lamp with brass horns and Carrara marble still tops our forever wish list. New to 2019, the Minos lamp is a playful lesson in texture and shape which pulls inspiration from composites of the 1970s. Made with Kvadrat 100 per cent mohair dark green upholstery, polished brass and green-beige terrazzo — it's a real conversation starter. This gorgeous coloured glass lamp by designer Jordi Canudas is an art object in its own right. It's a good story too — the ombré concept was created through an experiment of dipping lit bulbs into paint. Similarly, each sphere is hand dipped meaning each lamp is entirely unique. Available in two sizes (H22 or H54) and in multiple colours. Also available at Bring a smile to your face every day with this genius lamp from cool Italian design house Seletti. The incredibly life-like peeled banana design illuminates from within the fruit and is kept propped up by the peel. Super stylish, it’s a pop-art inspired design that wouldn’t look out of place in an art gallery. If you’ve got cash to splash in the homewares department, this is one way you can funnel it. L’Objet is an ultra-luxe interiors brand, bringing shoppers unique pieces with a strong design aesthetic. This brass legged table lamp is textbook. From jewellery to homewares, outer space appears to be a prevailing design inspiration for 2019. Brighten up your rooms with Tom Dixon’s stellar table lamp, which looks like Saturn turned on an axis. Designed with glass and brass-plated steel, it’s an elegant piece that will prove to be a real conversation starter. We’ve started calling it abstract celestial. A brand for the boldly eccentric, Abigail Ahern’s line of homewares are a complete joy to own. Each piece makes a statement and instantly becomes the focus of a room – perfect for those who want the designer look without the time and expense. The designer’s collection of lamps follow an animal kingdom theme that wouldn’t look out of place in Phileas Fogg's living room. The bases are covered in soft felt and in the shape of a variety of creatures, from hares to ravens. We like the look of this gorilla table lamp best; in a rich orange hue, he instantly commands the respect of any room. Comes with a matching orange lampshade. How does the lion sleep tonight? Pretty stylishly in Rory's case. We're into this brass covered resin lamp from John Lewis, which comes with a shade included. Get a pair to set up either side of your bed frame for regal bedtime vibes. Comes with a five year guarantee. This cheeky brass monkey won’t fail to bring a bit of mischievous character to your space. The bulb is not included but you can pick up a suitable one from Oliver Bonas here. Get Soho House-like interiors for less at... Matalan. Some pieces in the budget retailer's homewares section look like they would go for triple the price tag elsewhere, meaning you can get an ultra luxe look that won't break the bank. This blush fringed lamp will bring 50s red carpet glamour to your bedroom or an after-hours members club vibe to your sitting room. Bringing new heights to great design, this piece is part table lamp, part art piece. The light comes from the underside of the stairs, and you can move the magnetic man figure up and down the staircase as your mood suits. An inspiring piece for a home office or study. Sometimes the smallest design details have the biggest impact. This MADE design looks like a garden variety lamp... until your eyes reach the base where instead of a boring stand, a pair of flamingo legs come peeking out. Delightful, without being OTT. Made from ceramic fashioned into a pagoda-style house, this cute lamp is classic Oliver Bonas; cheerful, quirky and super Instagrammable. There’s no lampshade frame, so we would set this somewhere that needs a lot of light, such as a dressing table or hallway. Made with a white base and white lampshade, display this cute pooch in an unexpected corner and watch visitors do a double take. Bring nature's beauty indoors with this orb-like lamp that encases delicate metal flowers and stems. When illuminated it throws botanical shadows around the room. Brilliant and bonkers in equal measure, this croissant lamp takes the biscuit. The wireless light is battery operated (requires one AA, included) and gives a warm, just-baked glow for up to 50 hours. Sure to get the green light from industrial chic enthusiasts, this stripped back lamp is about as rough and ready as it gets. Position near an exposed brick wall and soften with plenty of house plants. With its band of faceted glass beads and contemporary design, this lamp would suit anyone with futuristic design leanings. It's a three stage touch dimmer so you can adjust the lighting to suit your needs and it's powered with LED, which lasts up to ten times longer than a traditional bulb, so it's a money-saver too. Talk about a bright idea. Designed exclusively for Habitat, this sculptural metal lamp is both elegant and unforgettable. Available in three sizes and various finishes. A kitsch pineapple lamp is all you need to bring tropical vibes to your space, handy for when you want to pretend you're on a sunny island instead of rainy Clapham. Switch on the sunshine with this lamp from the Lighting Superstore, which comes with lampshade included. ESBest product reviews are unbiased, independent advice you can trust. On some occasions, we earn revenue if you click the links and buy the products, but we never allow this to bias our coverage. The reviews are compiled through a mix of expert opinion and real-world testing. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter
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Jessica Reynolds, Abha Shah
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https://www.standard.co.uk/shopping/esbest/home-garden/home-accessories/best-unusual-table-lamps-a4199371.html
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2019-08-15 14:46:00+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-08-19--Interiors expert Sophie Robinson's top tips on designing a home office
| 2019-08-19T00:00:00 |
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Interiors expert Sophie Robinson's top tips on designing a home office
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With space at such a premium in our homes it can feel decadent to relinquish an entire room for use as an office yet, with calls for flexible working gaining momentum, it's wise to carve out an area in the home where you can be your most productive. Flexible working is predicted to contribute a £148 billion boost to the UK economy by 2030, highlighted by campaigns such as #FlexAppeal founded by Anna Whitehouse (@MotherPukka), and increasing numbers of us are feeling encouraged to swap commutes and desks under strip lighting for creative corners out of the office. Do you convert the tiny box room into a study, or is it more useful to have a day bed in there for guests? Should you install a fixed workspace in a disused corner, or are you more creative on the move: in different rooms at different times of the day? "Home offices are still popular. However, there is a growing trend for spaces within the home to be multifunctional," says Nicola Keenan, co-founder of London-based design studio Boxx Creative. “The way people are working from home is changing and they are becoming more creative with how they use their space." Interior designer and TV presenter Sophie Robinson recently designed her dream home office in one of the London Eye pods, in partnership with freelance networking platform Fiverr. After 15 years of working freelance, says Robinson, "it's really important for me to be in a space that helps me feel focused, energised and innovative. Your office space should feel as well-designed and colourful as any room in your home." Flexible furniture experts and flat-pack pioneer, IKEA, has seen a rise in demand for ergonomically designed office chairs and dual-function sit/standing desks in recent years. “Flexible workspaces are on the rise and people are now searching for storage that offers both dual functionality and mobility," says IKEA UK and Ireland home office sales leader, Evanthia Nikoglou. So whether you're looking to transform an entire room, or need to carve out a corner where you can be your most creative, it's important to spend time getting the design right for you and your way of working. Sophie Robinson's six top tips on designing your perfect home-working space Nobody feels creative when they’re sitting in the dark! Getting as much natural light as you can is crucial to feeling like you’re wide awake and ready to take on the day’s challenges. It boosts vitamin D production in your body and helps your natural rhythm keep in sync, which is especially important for those of us who spend a lot of time flexi-working around the clock. If you can, try to place your work desk near a window. Even if it’s just a garden or a window box - a view that stretches out further than three feet in front of your face will give you something to look at and feel inspired by when you’re trying to hit that creative peak. Most of us now spend the vast majority of our working days staring at a screen but this short-range vision isn’t conducive to creative thinking. As it’s important to have a break from the constant screen time, a great way to do that is to fill your workspace walls with pictures, visual ideas, mood boards, even artwork. Placing something into your environment that has real physical presence can make a real difference to your day, to your mood and your productivity. Use images to represent your goals, as we respond to pictures more powerfully than the written word. Biophilia is the scientific name for the love and connection we humans have for the natural world and is being implemented in the way we design our workspaces, as it’s scientifically proven to reduce stress and enhance productivity. You can easily add the feel-good vibes by adding living plants and flowers to your desk and choosing natural materials like wood and stone to furnish your space. It’s important to recognise that if you’re a home worker or freelancer, you’ll be spending a pretty large proportion of your day in your workspace. Invest some time, and even money, into making it as interesting and useful as it can possibly be That means getting yourself a comfy chair, organising your space so you have plenty of storage to keep the clutter out of sight, and having an inspiring view and/or a visualisation wall. When I’m working at home I’ll often go from the desk to the sofa, to the kitchen table, and back again, all in search of a creative spark or feeling energised. Try to build as much opportunity for movement into your workspace, so that you’ll have the chance to freshen up your perspective when you’re hard at work. Movement has been proven to enhance our wellbeing, stress levels and improve our productivity. If all else fails, my most useful work hack is to take off my shoes and socks and go for a short walk on the grass. Then I come back to my desk and nail it
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Meghann Murdock
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https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/home-office-ideas-interiors-expert-sophie-robinsons-top-tips-on-how-to-design-the-perfect-space-for-a4216071.html
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eveningstandard--2019-11-01--PETA's award-winning vegan interiors brands for your home
| 2019-11-01T00:00:00 |
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PETA's award-winning vegan interiors brands for your home
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It's World Vegan Day today — a day when vegans across the globe celebrate and champion the benefits of a plant-based diet. Veganism is more than just going meat-free, however. It also means adopting a change of lifestyle and more consumers are now seeking out cruelty-free homewares and interiors. The number of vegans in the UK quadrupled between 2014 and 2019 according to The Vegan Society. In 2018 alone, the UK launched more vegan products than anywhere else in the world. In June, UK-based charity PETA, dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals, announced the winners of its Vegan Homeware Awards 2019 and top high street and designer names made it onto the list. Among the winners of this year’s awards are H&M Home’s Conscious collection and Italian furniture makers Cassina. Brands ditching wool for animal-friendly alternatives included House of Kind, for its handcrafted Polku blanket featuring a grey and off-white Scandi design, offset with pink pom poms. Meanwhile, eco textiles brand Weaver Green was awarded best wool-free ottoman for its Kasbah Ink Ottoman made from 100 per cent recycled plastic bottles but with the look and feel of a wool product. And The Fine Bedding Company’s vegan Smartdown range of bedding – also made from recycled plastic bottles with a 280 thread count – was crowned best down-free bed linen. Other winners in PETA’s Vegan Homeware Awards 2019 include accessories brand Hetty + Sam, whose stylish geometric cushion is made from cruelty-free fabric, Eden Perfumes’ Vegan Soy Wax Candle in lime, basil and mandarin and Ocado's Scruffs Eco Donut Dog Bed, made with recycled fleece. Meanwhile, Italian brand Cassina won the collaboration award for their collaboration with Philippe Starck to create furniture using apple waste in place of leather. The experimental product, Apple Ten Lork, is made from apple cores and skins that would otherwise be wasted. And Dutch designer Tjeerd Veenhoven won the innovation award for his use of palm leather to create a range of vegan rugs. An alternative to cow hide, the innovative rugs are made from palm leaves, which are folded in strips and attached to a woven base to create a patterned appearance. PETA’s director Elisa Allen says there is a booming demand for vegan décor with buyers looking for fashionable and functional pieces. “Animals are not fabric – and we need to move away from using their skin, fur, wool, and feathers as such. “As interest in vegan living grows, so does the availability of stylish, cruelty-free home decor options. In our selection of the winning products, we took into account their look and feel, ethical credentials, and feedback received from PETA staff as well as from compassionate consumers,” she says. When looking at the criteria for what makes a product vegan and cruelty-free when choosing the winners, the team at PETA get confirmation from the shortlisted brands. The team also take on board feedback from consumers throughout the year. Take a look through our gallery above for the best vegan interiors brands for your home.
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Aneira Davies
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https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/world-vegan-day-2019-the-best-vegan-homeware-made-from-crueltyfree-fabrics-downfree-bedding-and-a4275536.html
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Fri, 01 Nov 2019 09:17:00 GMT
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eveningstandard--2019-11-22--The top picks in party-ready interiors
| 2019-11-22T00:00:00 |
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The top picks in party-ready interiors
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Get your glad rags on, it’s soirée season. And what better way to celebrate than to throw a ball of your own? Drawn up for carrying wine, throwing shapes and adding festive frills, this group of attendees offers everything you’ll need for a fabulous fiesta. Swipe through the gallery for an assortment of party finishing touches - from candlesticks to cocktail sticks. Interiors expert Sophie Ashby on mastering the art of colour Q: Any tips on how to create a great colour scheme for any room? A: Start by choosing three key colours for your space. For example, when incorporating greens and blues into a living room, I would start with fairly neutral walls and perhaps a warm, off-white for the larger furniture. Then add stronger greens and blues using upholstery, smaller furniture, art and accessories. My final touches might include the odd burst of yellow or orange to disrupt the perfection. I don’t think it’s possible to have too much colour. To create a rich, layered and bright room, I say ‘go for broke’. Create coherency by repeating the colours you use on different elements in the room. For example, at home I used oranges, blues, greens, yellows and red, but for every item in that colour (ie a yellow floor lamp) there would be another object in the room of the same shade. I enjoy experimenting with strong paint colours on the walls and Farrow & Ball has some great pages on its website (farrow-ball.com) dedicated to helping you discover what works and where. I often suggest picking a more muted version of a colour you like, for example a greyish blue, dirty pink or mossy green. This can then become a backdrop on which you layer stronger colour.
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Joanna Taylor
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https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/the-top-picks-in-partyready-interiors-a4292161.html
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Fri, 22 Nov 2019 19:09:30 GMT
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eveningstandard--2019-12-04--Why this blue is tipped to be the next big trend in home interiors
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Why this blue is tipped to be the next big trend in home interiors
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Classic Blue has been revealed as Colour of the Year 2020 by Pantone, the American colour coding company whose swatches are the reference point for designers worldwide. A rich shade close to cobalt, between navy and royal, Classic Blue is "a timeless and enduring hue elegant in its simplicity", according to Pantone and has been used in homewares through history, from Ancient Egyptian glazes and Bronze Age glass to Tang and Ming dynasties Chinese pottery. Described as "solid and dependable" and a shade "we can always rely on" by Pantone Color Institute executive director Leatrice Eiseman, Classic Blue will make a strong statement on its own — as a bold feature wall or as an accessory against a neutral backdrop — or layered with other lighter shades of blue, such as denim or sky, for a tonal look. Heralding good news for interiors fans who embraced grey with enthusiasm, the deep blue will pair well with many shades already in our homes. Pantone says the shade "brings a sense of peace and tranquillity to the human spirit", particularly as technological advancements gather pace. "It's easy to understand why we gravitate to colours that offer the promise of protection." We've already seen the colour on the catwalk in next year's collections. British fashion designer Stella McCartney included rich, blue looks in her Spring/Summer 2020 show at Paris Fashion Week in September. Using the shade in homes Instagrammers the world over have been championing mid to dark blues for the past few years. "These deep blues became popular in 2013 and have been becoming more mainstream and familiar ever since," says Dulux creative director Marianne Shillingford, "They are perfect for spaces where we want to sleep, dream and relax — it's a colour you can dive into and of course blue is the world's favourite colour.” Stylist Alex Stedman, of The Frugality Blog, and writer Kate Watson Smyth, author of Mad About the House, are among interiors influencers to have used blue hues such as Farrow & Ball's Hague Blue — which now has over 24,000 posts on its very own Instagram hashtag — on walls and features in their homes to stunning effect. "Dark blues have proved a popular choice within the home, especially in the kitchen as dark blue cabinets look very elegant and make an impressive design statement," say interior designers Nicola Keenan and Nicola Lindsell, co-founders of Boxx Creative design studio. "The dark blues work really well when paired with warm natural woods and can also provide grounding and depth to neutral colour schemes." "Pantone’s Classic Blue works well as an accent colour or as a main colour within a room scheme, for instance by painting the walls and ceiling," adds Keenan. Last year's Colour of the Year was Living Coral, a lively shade pitched between orange and peach. It was described as "sociable, spirited and life-affirming" by Pantone, but it wasn't an industry-wide favourite. Design TV presenter Michelle Ogundehin, writing on the Dezeen website, argued that it was "simply too saccharine, bright and ripe to be remotely relaxing". Australian design studio Jack + Huei described the choice of colour as "tone-deaf and downright irresponsible", and proposed Bleached Coral — a very pale blue — for next year to highlight the environmental destruction of coral reefs.
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Meghann Murdock
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https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/pantone-colour-of-the-year-2020-classic-blue-a4304946.html
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Wed, 04 Dec 2019 18:36:00 GMT
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thedailybeast--2019-01-30--Scouted Modsy Is Interior Design For People Who Hate To Redecorate
| 2019-01-30T00:00:00 |
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Scouted: Modsy Is Interior Design For People Who Hate To Redecorate
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When living in a big city and moving around a lot, it's hard to make a place feel like home. Hand-me-down or quick-buy furniture is usually strewn about and things just don't look cohesive. But who has the time or money to find an interior decorator that can untangle the web of design you've created? That's where services like Modsy come in. Modsy is an all-in-one design service that helps you plan, arrange, and even buy pieces to make your idea of a dream bedroom, living room, whatever you want, come to fruition. I was given the opportunity by Modsy to test out the experience, and I’ve been recommending it to friends ever since. It has completely changed how I look at what I buy and how I plan to buy for my space. And the price (packages start at $59) is much less of a gut punch than any other interior design service I was considering. There’s the option to choose what you think your interior design style is, or take a fun style quiz that is probably the best part of the whole set up. The quiz absolutely nailed my style, dubbing it Mod Collector (a mix between Eclectic and Mid-Century Modern, with a touch of Industrial). It’s like reading the perfect horoscope. After that, comes the addition of what your actual room looks like. While working from home one day, I spent five minutes gathering the measurements (length/width of the room, any alcoves, etc.), and took a handful of photos of my living room from every different corner and angle I could think of. They recommend eight photos (four in each corner, and four from the middle of each wall, including the ceiling and floor in each) but I sent a couple more, as my open living room set up is a bit wonky. After all the measuring, it takes about a week to get your beautifully detailed 3D rendering if you pick a package that includes it. If you do (I recommend it), it’s like your own personal stockpile of interior design porn, based on your own home. What always scared me about interior design services was whether they would be pushy about purchasing the furniture they recommend. Modsy doesn’t do that. They give you a place to set your budget for every piece that may be placed in the room, and link out to it, but you’re not pressured into buying anything they mock up. You can even swap in things they have mocked up in their library using their Live Swap too. If you see something you want, you can just place it in your studio, without having to discuss anything. But, if you want help, most of their packages include one-on-one time with the designers. My good friend, and coworker, Veronica de Souza also got the chance to have them help her design her basement/den area. “I dragged my feet during Modsy’s setup process. I put off the design quiz, though it ended up helping me describe my style. I put off uploading what felt like a million photos of my living room," she said. “But once I saw the 3D model they made I realized it was all worth it. I was blown away by how realistic the model was, and the fact that I could click and drag pieces around like I was playing The Sims. One of the two designs I received made me think of the space in a completely different way.” The only slightly disappointing part is that even though both Veronica and I had put that we shop and love pieces from more affordable destinations like Target and IKEA, most of the pieces were from higher-end retailers like CB2, West Elm, and others. “I ended up buying a pair of armchairs that were in my Modsy design, but on a different website because they were on sale,” Veronica said. Honestly, the overall design and planning has made my all-over-the-place checklist into a cohesive design plan, which is really what this was about. I’ll have these renderings to refer back to in case I want to switch up my room’s layout, and I’ll have the inspiration built-in. If you need a kick in the butt to redesign your space, Modsy is a great place to start. Scouted is internet shopping with a pulse. Follow us on Twitter and sign up for our newsletter for even more recommendations and exclusive content. Please note that if you buy something featured in one of our posts, The Daily Beast may collect a share of sales.
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theguardianuk--2019-01-30--Selfie v shelfie fashions growing appetite for interiors
| 2019-01-30T00:00:00 |
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Selfie v shelfie: fashion’s growing appetite for interiors
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Forget about athleisure, ugly trainers and logomania, the most dominant trend to have gripped the masses in recent years isinteriors. The fashion world is currently consumed by a homeware obsession – making the “shelfie” the new selfie. It’s not a hard trend to hunt down. On social media, aesthetically pleasing backgrounds now get at least as much attention as the outfits we post photographs of. Elsewhere on our feeds, Peggy Guggenheim’s terrazzo-tiled palazzo in Venice, the quiet sophistication of Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge and the sugary millennial-pink interior of the tea room at Sketch in London are just as likely to be pictured as a new pair of shoes. The hashtag #IHaveThisThingWithTiles has become as commonplace as #TodayI’mWearing, while Le Corbusier is the new Calvin Klein and Charlotte Perriand the new Prada. The two worlds have merged to create complementary – if co-dependant – style statements and, as a host of established players enter the fray, buying a cushion with your coat is set to become cheaper and more accessible than ever. Hot on the heels of River Island launching its 160-piece in-house collection last September (its head of homeware, Dayna Sofair declared that “style doesn’t end at our clothes”), Asos launches its first homeware line, Supply, next Monday. River Island promises that “customers will be able to shop the looks [priced between £6 for a mug to £275 for a rug] easily and refresh and update their home seasonally” just as they would with their wardrobes. Similarly, Asos’s “living” range, which starts at £8, is “inspired by seasonal trends and packed with innovative pieces for your home that are as individual as you are”. “It’s a natural extension of accessorising in fashion in the way you might buy something to cheer an outfit up; the equivalent is buying a cushion for your sofa or a vase for your mantlepiece,” says Vogue’s fashion features editor, Ellie Pithers. She too credits Instagram for the rate at which we are consuming images of people’s houses, hence increasing our appetite for interiors (witness the Italian fashion brand Bottega Veneta this week releasing its spring 2019 campaign, in which the chrome and snakeskin chair the model sat on stole the show). “The next stage of showing off your good taste is extended to your house.” The new offering from Asos – which self-identifies as “a global fashion destination for 20-somethings” – promises to work, says Pithers, because it is targeting young trend-driven shoppers who don’t have a lot of space or money. “They haven’t focused on big furniture, because their customers are students who don’t have big flats.” Instead, they can “buy a standard sofa from Ikea then beautify it with lots of nice little bits”, such as placing a wicker wastepaper basket, a printed plate or a water jug nearby. River Island’s bestsellers so far – a coaster, a planter and a leopard-print mug –chime with this psychology. That the popularity of interiors has coincided with the rise of the Swedish H&M group on the high street is no coincidence. The group capitalised on the mid-century Scandinavian aesthetic – one of the most prevailing interiors trends of this century – by bottling the formula, firstly through its H&M Home brand and then with Arket, which launched in 2017. “Arket has been clever,” says Pithers. “The way they have the homewares by the till. Instead of buying a chocolate bar on the way out of the newsagent, you’re buying a little vase or a pack of matches that doesn’t cost very much and cheers you up.” When it comes to fashion, quick-fix, fast interiors are the new food for thought. And they’re always ready for a close-up. This article contains affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission if a reader clicks through and makes a purchase. All our journalism is independent and is in no way influenced by any advertiser or commercial initiative. The links are powered by Skimlinks. By clicking on an affiliate link, you accept that Skimlinks cookies will be set. More information.
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Scarlett Conlon
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https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/jan/30/selfie-v-shelfie-fashion-interiors-backdrops-clothes-online-brands-home-accessories-decor
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theindependent--2019-01-23--The yearaposs top design trends from Europeaposs biggest interiors fair
| 2019-01-23T00:00:00 |
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The year's top design trends from Europe's biggest interiors fair
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At the Paris interiors trade fair, Maison & Objet, there was talk of “nouvelle vague” — a new wave of radical design which, if you looked carefully, swirled around amid an otherwise overheated show in eight huge halls with a rather dull mix and only glimpses of talent and originality. Holding court in the middle of it all was Vincent Grégoire of influential Paris trends agency NellyRodi, in a gorgeously curated gallery crammed with fresh French products and the avant-garde. There were surrealistic ceramics and fanciful chairs, graffiti-splashed fabrics, sculptured marble, brilliant baskets, tribal masks, handcrafted metals — and even the odd robot. Excuse My French was the somewhat cryptic title for this mad melange. Grégoire was championing the original, exotic, individual and bizarre. “People are sick of globalisation,” he said. “Now we are bold not bourgeois. We do classic with a twist, revitalise old crafts and mix in some top tech.” In truth, these trends are not a French monopoly. You could see them in many places, for about 60 per cent of Maison & Objet exhibitors are drawn from 63 countries. What does remain global is an international pool of well-trained talent and a transcontinental sharing of craft skills. Prime example is designer of the year at Maison, Sebastian Herkner, 38, from Frankfurt, whose early internship with Stella McCartney taught him “tactility and emotion”. Now he’s putting craft back into industry. He worked, for example, with 200-year-old Thonet of Austria, whose legendary wood-bending expertise has furnished thousands of cafés with those familiar curvy brown bentwood chairs. Herkner’s new version has a traditionally bent timber seat and caning, married with an elegant CNC-cut frame. His new range for UK- and Germany-based garden furniture company Gloster has a heap of elegant, textured cushions you can leave outside. The London stockist is World of Teak, N11. Herkner’s easy chair for Dedon takes four days to weave in the Philippines and the glass base of his Bell table for ClassiCon has revived the fortunes of ancient glassmakers in Bavaria. Find it at Aram Store in Covent Garden. Prestigious French furniture maker Ligne Roset, founded by Antoine Roset in 1860, now finds clever conduits for top French designers. Quilted fabric is its relatively recent art, developed painstakingly for the already-classic Ruché sofa by Inga Sempé, who worked out the patterns on her sewing machine at home. “Then we designed a robotic quilter,” says Michel Roset, current father of this formidable family firm. It still takes nine hours to quilt a sofa: “But we get the original handmade effect at a good price.” Adapting these techniques is Marie Christine Dorner, with a sharp geometry for her new quilted Uncover sofa. Ligne Roset has a dedicated London store in Mortimer Street, W1 and an expansive concession in Heal’s, W1. Britain, too, is an enthusiastic baton-bearer for originality and craft. Prime example is Object Studio in E10, a team of designer-makers brought together by RCA graduate Tom Vaughan and celebrated for super-curvy wooden furniture. Now, aided by a Queen Elizabeth Trust Scholarship, they’ve perfected a new metal dining chair, using local metalworking skills, from sand-casting the aluminium components, to coating with copper or bronze, or covering with hand-stitched leather.
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Barbara Chandler
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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/design/maison-et-objet-2019-interior-design-trends-from-europe-s-biggest-interiors-trade-fair-a8743206.html
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theindependent--2019-02-16--Transform your interiors with mixed material furnishings
| 2019-02-16T00:00:00 |
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Transform your interiors with mixed material furnishings
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There’s a new rule that design gurus are urging us to follow: mix up your materials and finishes. Interior designer Katharine Pooley tells me that “a simple piece of furniture can be completely transformed with the use of high contrast finishes, adding interest and a sense of luxury to even the simplest pieces”. So, next time you find yourself shopping for home accessories, look for pieces that combine and clash materials to give your home an on-trend design update and a more dynamic feel. Read on for examples that showcase the dramatic effect of bold material pairings in the home. First up is Swoon, the one-stop-shop for quirky, often art deco-inspired pieces to bring your home up to date. There is a vast selection of items in the Swoon portfolio that demonstrate the elegance of a metal-wood or metal-stone pairing. A personal favourite is the Grace cabinet, a combination of acacia wood and brass with steel legs. The striking geometric design contrasts the flecked woodgrain of the unit with the smooth finish of the brass design, appearing 3D to add further dimension to whatever scheme it’s placed within. New from Scandi lighting and furniture brand UMAGE is the Acorn in amber brass and smoked steel. The Acorn is a pendant light that pairs brass and steel accents with glass in different tones to help you set the mood in any room. The visible decorative bulb of the Acorn offers an alternative to the ubiquitous Edison variety, with the added benefit of the stylish smoked glass. Finally, Francis Cayouette has created an unapologetically minimalist french press coffee maker for Danish design brand Stelton. Available from Oggetto, the matte black stoneware of the Theo cafetiere is topped with a pale bamboo lid. With the trend for dark kitchens, this piece will fit seamlessly into the modern kitchen environment. The spout is drip-free, making your morning that bit easier.
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Anya Cooklin-Lofting
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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/design/transform-your-interiors-with-mixed-material-furnishings-a8782486.html
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theindependent--2019-03-29--Instagram influencer Erica Davies unveils her new interiors collection
| 2019-03-29T00:00:00 |
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Instagram influencer Erica Davies unveils her new interiors collection
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We're all guilty of scrolling through Instagram and wishing we could transport the interiors looks from the grid directly into our own homes. Now it's possible, as top interiors influencer Erica Davies has joined forces with QVC to create a collection inspired by her own home. With over 15 years experience in the fashion industry as a stylist and journalist, she upped sticks from south-east London to renovate a house in the countryside on the Essex/Suffolk border. A fan of scouring eBay and trawling the high street, Erica gives her 133,000 followers on Instagram a daily look into her stylish home. Here she offers an insight into the trends to look out for and how to style your home on a budget. 1. What homeware to invest in A piece of art can act as an expression of your personality on the walls of your home. it's also one of the easiest ways to create a talking point in a room. If you can't stretch to an original artwork, opt for a wall print from eBay or Etsy. You can get them personalised for an extra special touch. "I think a real statement piece of art is a good one, and you don’t have to make it expensive. "Something large that will dominate a room and provide a focal point is a really quick and easy way to give your room an update," says Davies. 2. Why a bedroom is the easiest room to update When you've decided to transform your home, it's difficult to decide which room to tackle first. The bedroom is probably the room where you will spend the longest time, so make it a priority. "For me a bedroom would be the easiest to makeover. A new lick of paint on the walls won’t cost a fortune, but it will completely refresh the space. "Build on the scheme by adding new cushions, a fresh duvet set or even a statement, inexpensive rug. "I also think having plants in a bedroom really adds texture and interest," says Davies. 3. Where to look for inspiration With endless hashtags to follow and people sharing photos of their homes across social media, the internet is a treasure trove of inspiration. But, it's not the only place to look to spark your imagination. "It could be a restaurant, a hotel I’m staying in, someone walking down the street in a really cool outfit, or the way somebody might put colours together might spark something. "I might just see a cushion and that would spark an entire theme, so I find inspiration absolutely everywhere," says Davies. 4. These are the trends to look out for in 2019 Luckily, lots of home decor trends are carrying over from last season so there's no need to splash out on totally new items if you're on a budget. "There are still so many botanical prints, but they are moving into less natural colours, so look for faux in colours other than green. "I've noticed a lot of circular trends – circular foot stalls and circular tables," says Davies. Scroll through our gallery above to see the new QVC collection in full...
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Sophie Warner
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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/design/interiors-home-infuencer-erica-davies-offers-makeover-tips-as-she-launches-new-qvc-collection-a8845386.html
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theindependent--2019-04-04--When it comes to interior design velvet is taking over
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When it comes to interior design, velvet is taking over
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Velvet is fast becoming something of a trans-seasonal fabric choice in interior schemes all over the world. From hotels and bars to the most Pin-able of living rooms and bedrooms, velvet has scalloped, pleated and dimpled its way onto our feeds and into our homes. From upholstery to curtains and carpets; the trend is here to stay. One of the most prominent ways we are introducing velvet into our interior schemes is via upholstery on armchairs and sofas. Sofa Workshop, a leading sofa retailer, has reported a 58 per cent increase in searches for velvet sofas year on year, while online furniture retailer, Wayfair.co.uk, has quoted a staggering 500 per cent year on year increase. However, velvet sofas may not have the monopoly on the market, as the site has also seen a spike in searches for “velvet wallpaper”, which is up over 1000 per cent year on year. Heritage carpet manufacturer, Brintons, has also revealed that velvet-style carpets are enjoying an increase in sales. Nadia McGowan Hill, Wayfair.co.uk’s resident style advisor, believes this is indicative of a growing confidence in the material, “proving that this trend is being creatively adapted into home improvements and decor, as well as furniture.” But it’s not just a creative confidence in the fabric that's fuelling its popularity, as Kelling Design/KDLoves’s founder and creative director Emma Deterding tells me. “There are so many bombproof varieties of velvets available today. You can be as daring as you like, without the fear of spills, stains, wear and tear. Velvets are now just as life-proof as any other fabric on the market.” Shelby Pearson-Hendry, visual merchandise and photography manager at Sofology, agrees and believes the variety available in top retailers today is also driving the market. “The popularity of velvet continues, not only because of the luxury and richness that it offers, but also because of the wealth of choice in terms of finishes. From crushed and matte velvet all the way through to deep pile, with interwoven pattern, this sumptuous fabric is both liveable and indulgent.” Helen Bygraves, co-founder of London and Surrey-based design studio, Hill House Interiors, points out that due to the variety available, velvet “lends itself well to both minimalist and maximalist designs", meaning its popularity reaches across two of the key schools of aesthetics in interiors. For example, Ikea, known for its classically Swedish and minimalist designs, has launched a series of velvet pieces including the Fasalt Swivel armchair in a glorious mustard that works just as well in maximalist schemes. Ella James has also created beautiful new season photography that demonstrates the use of decadent velvet cushions in pared-back, Scandi settings. So, whether you’re ready to go full throttle with a carpet or sofa, or if a scatter cushion or two is your limit, embrace velvet this spring and beyond.
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Anya Cooklin-Lofting
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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/design/velvet-trend-interior-design-sofa-chair-fabric-a8853116.html
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2019-04-04 12:22:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-06-03--Vogue illustrator launches playful interiors collection for Habitat to spruce up your home
| 2019-06-03T00:00:00 |
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Vogue illustrator launches playful interiors collection for Habitat to spruce up your home
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Illustrator and photographer Quentin Jones has designed an interiors capsule collection for Habitat – and it’s as sprightly as fans of the acclaimed artist would expect. Jones, who is renowned for her work for Vogue, Chanel and Victoria Beckham, has reimagined some of her signature artworks across a range of textiles for the home, consisting of rugs and cushions. There are the abstract eye cushions (£60 each), which Jones explains were inspired by the idea of a “sofa monster surveying the room”, that feature one open and one winking eye that look as if they’ve been painted on in brushstrokes. Then for those really looking to add some eccentricity into their living rooms, there’s the Antrausic Rug, costing £450, that features splashes of primary colours alongside rigid black typography on a white background. One undisputed highlight is the eye-eye My Love rug (£450), which incorporates two of the cushion designs into one reassembled artwork that looks as if it has been painted directly onto the rug itself. “My artworks are often very layered, with a mix of photography, painting and moving image,” Jones comments. “It doesn’t translate obviously into interior pieces, but I have a strong sense for how I like home’s interiors to be which sits as the under-pinning to lots of my work that hands on the walls.” Jones explained that she personally prefers working with monochromatic and primary palettes and is inspired by German art trends, such as Bauhaus. The artist adds: “I am also drawn to bold graphic shapes with minimal fuss which might be from having grown up in a house if two architect parents, who were keen minimalists.” Quentin Jones for Habitat is available to buy from Tuesday 4 June. Prices range from £60 to £500.
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Olivia Petter
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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/quentin-jones-habitat-interiors-vogue-illustrator-a8941591.html
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2019-06-03 09:59:42+00:00
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theindependent--2019-06-15--Digital platforms and technologies are changing the landscape of the interior design industry
| 2019-06-15T00:00:00 |
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Digital platforms and technologies are changing the landscape of the interior design industry
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The pervasive nature of modern technology has found its way into the interior design industry in unexpected and exciting ways. New digital platforms have been born out of niches that mirror the recent demands of the consumer (who has developed a penchant for vintage design pieces) alongside pressures from the wider industry to abolish waste and encourage the efficient use of pre-existing design products. Today, I speak to two entrepreneurs about the online products they have created, putting in place solutions to two very contemporary challenges. That necessity breeds innovation has always been intrinsic to design and this is how it looks in the digital age. The increase in popularity of vintage and one-off pieces for the home has forced the rise of technology to support more widespread availability of such items. Interior designers and homeowners alike are drawn to the unpredictable and intoxicating journey of sourcing the perfect, unique item that makes a home their own. Hollie Bowden, a London-based interior designer, says, “Sourcing furniture has long been a pastime of mine, since before I even began designing. I do this all over the world, auctions, antique fairs, flea markets, eBay, I have suppliers all around the world. My main ports of call would be Paris, Milan and Belgium, especially for antiques.” So too does Trilbey Gordon, head of interior design at Londonewcastle, believe that the best decorative pieces for the home can be found in the most obscure of places. She says: “I source eclectic pieces from everywhere for my clients’ homes. Paris, London, Miami, LA, through dealers, auction houses, first dibs and vintage stores that I have relationships with. I always try to mix things up, I never want a room that is just one look, from one source or one era. I want to see pieces that are interesting and collectable, but also to be in a space that tells a story.” But for the vintage lover without the time to dedicate to the exhausting task of hand-sourcing furniture from all over the world, new digital listing technologies are invaluable. Sandrine Zhang Ferron founded online design marketplace Vinterior in 2015 to further this technological movement, connecting independent sellers of vintage furniture to their markets. The origination of the digital product she created lay in the largely inefficacious processes of the vintage furniture trade. The scattered and ephemeral nature of vintage sellers and the pieces themselves were something of a catalyst for Zhang Ferron. She spent months trawling vintage furniture dealerships and showrooms trying to find the perfect Scandinavian style chair for her new London home, becoming frustrated at the fruitlessness of it all. She tells me that, although inspiring, the travel involved in visiting these showrooms to little or no avail was time-consuming and the lack of updated online furniture listings just added to this frustration. Zhang Ferron believed that there must be a better, more coherent method to sourcing these rare yet unbelievably popular items. This was the moment she decided to pursue Vinterior, “the online marketplace that brings together independent boutiques with those looking for remarkable furniture, in one place”. Leaving the world of finance behind, Zhang Ferron tells me she learned to code to build the platform from scratch. She launched the platform with 200 products with the support of 12 dealers and last year, celebrated Vinterior’s 200,000th furniture listing across more than 150,000 sellers. The network is evidently expanding with the consumer’s tastes, making readily available the rare design classics and one-off vintage pieces of Pinterest boards the world over. When I ask which style or era of furniture design Zhang Ferron’s customers (or should I say, unique users?) are most drawn to, she unblinkingly offers, “postmodern. Postmodern design, in particular, looks unbelievable in a super modern setting. The 21st century home benefits from the superior quality of this style and people love the natural materials that this movement incorporates.” The second challenge that is being tackled by digital creatives is the hugely underreported, endemic problem of overstock and product waste in the retail industry. The scale of overstock across all retail categories is worth around £5bn in the UK alone, according to research by buyfair.global, the first B2B multi-lot auction-based marketplace for overstock, sample and end-of-line products. The founders of the site believe that “excess stock is a huge problem, but [we] have a solution to the current difficult trading conditions of premium design products”. This solution to the sheer scale of waste involved in modern product production centres on a multi-lot auction model, ensuring fair prices for buyers and quick return on stock for sellers, allowing brands to reinvest profits back into the design industry. Dominic Speelman, co-founder and CEO of buyfair.global, is dismantling the stigma surrounding overstock across retail. He assures me that although overstock has been a taboo subject for a number of years, something that premium brands in particular “have been loath to discuss”, he feels “a tipping point has been reached and people are searching for a solution to the problem”. Deborah Spencer, a partner at the company and founder of annual design show designjunction, tells me: “buyfair.global brings the first and only multi-lot, real-time auction to the industry at a time where it has been incredibly difficult for homeware brands to manage inventory as we lose key retailers from our high streets.” It has already signed a number of design and lifestyle brands looking to make a change, including LSA, Serax, Case and Innermost who join more than 200 other companies and thousands of product listings. From aesthetic demands to environmental pressures, technology in the interior design community is streamlining and improving the buying process at many different stages. It’s fascinating to track its progress and the world looks forward to where such platforms will take it next. Although, I’m rather contented knowing that my route to purchase of the perfect postmodern coffee table is easier than it has ever been before.
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Anya Cooklin-Lofting
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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/design/interior-design-digital-technologies-thrift-vintage-travel-a8956866.html
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2019-06-15 11:30:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-12-20--How the top interior designers decorate for Christmas
| 2019-12-20T00:00:00 |
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How the top interior designers decorate for Christmas
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There is an art to decorating your home for the festive period. It is one of the world’s most democratic art forms, with endless themes, colours and tastes counting towards what is deemed a successful scheme. The criteria? Whatever makes you feel festively fuzzy on the inside. Whether you tenderly retrieve generations-old decorations from the attic or refresh your look annually, there is no wrong way to get your festive fervour flowing. This week, we hear from three interior designers on their personal preferences when it comes to decorating the family home for Christmas. “I believe Christmas should feel magical no matter what age you are. I love creating the magic for those around me to enjoy, old and young. Christmas styling is as fast moving as the fashion industry, I learnt early on not to try and follow these but to find what I like and evolve it year on year. That way every year I have a scheme that has been thoughtfully developed and remains truly magical. As with everything at home, my priority is to make it work for my family. The boys love to help with selecting the decorations. They love animals so we are using a selection of bird decorations along with the more traditional Christmas Baubles. The best way to start is by looking at the current room scheme and seeing what would best translate it into a Christmas scheme. I never want my Christmas scheme to be alienated from the room or the house, I want to ensure it felt right. I make sure to layer the Christmas tree from the centre out to ensure it has a rich, full appearance.” “I like recognising the seasonal transition within my interiors, so decorations go up early, but not too early! Sticking to tradition, as soon as the twelfth day is up, they come down. When decorating for Christmas, more is always more. Your home is a reflection of you and your personality, and this applies just as much if not more so to seasonal decorations as year-round interiors. For example, my treasured collection of old toys take centre stage at Christmas time. I’m a collector of items, and my home is full of pieces I have gathered from my travels over the years. Christmas decorations are no exception. I try to add one or two items to my seasonal box every year.” “Decorating for Christmas is one of the most joyous activities of the year. I’ve always loved it and if I could, I’d start on 1st November. I start by laying out all of my decorations out so I can see what colours and baubles I want to use. This way, there is a system! The first area of the home I decorate is the hallway. To make a memorable entrance hall, I love to create a really lovely white, very soft feature using gorgeous olive branches and dried Luminara. Olive branches are really easy because they're very malleable and you can move them and the Luminara are dried so they can be used again and again. Continuing the theme, white Christmas trees are definitely my favourite, and are always what I do these days. One of the things I've learned over the years is that even if you have a smaller tree you can build it out using foliage. My absolute favourite is Pussy Willow which you can place throughout the tree to give a much wider scale, and it works with any colour scheme. It also looks amazing in a vase, and will last for up to a year without water. I always put my lights up first so they are styled evenly on the tree, making sure they're all working. Bigger baubles will always go at the bottom so that you start with more at the bottom and start to get smaller as they go to the top. A really good way to decorate if you've got a minimalist home and you don't want a tree, is to display wreaths on a wall. This creates almost paintings of wreaths, or you can put them between your photographs and paintings on a wall. Wreaths are not only for the outside of the door and work well inside and are nice on the table as well. If they're small you can put candles and walnuts in them and use all of the lovely Christmas oranges.”
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Anya Cooklin-Lofting
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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/design/top-interior-designers-decorate-for-christmas-a9253086.html
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thesun--2019-01-05--Inside Jake Quickendens minimalist country mansion he shares with his Staffy pup featuring a motor
| 2019-01-05T00:00:00 |
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Inside Jake Quickenden’s minimalist country mansion he shares with his Staffy pup, featuring a motorbike indoors, glossy interiors, and chickens
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JAKE Quickenden has slummed it in the I'm A Celeb jungle but resides over a stunning modern home with minimalist decor. The 30-year old star, who released new music last month, lives in a pristine pad with inspiring features - that would be loved by Fifty Shades of Grey character Christian Grey. Jake shares his house with his adorable Staffordshire pup Storm, whose silvery blue fur even matches his home's cool decor. Photos posted on Instagram reveal the singer has chic taste, favouring metallic interiors and glossy surfaces. Visitors enter a huge corridor through a front door grey door, where a majestic motorbike stands nearby as a stunning centrepiece, and a sign spells 'love'. Entering the kitchen, The Dancing On Ice winner's pals can mingle on the snazzy orange chairs, or swivel seats by his breakfast bar. If he fancies a spot of cooking, for girlfriend Sophie Church or his mum, he has all the mod cons at his fingertips, including a four door oven. The metallic theme continues upstairs in his bedroom and also into the living room, where there are grey carpets, curtains and sofas. There is plenty of floor space in all of the rooms for Jake to practise his yoga, which he does every morning to strengthen his back after a Dancing On Ice injury. Jake was a professional footballer before he broke his leg, and still plays for his local team. Jake appeared on I'm A Celeb in 2014 and finished runner up to his future fiancé's father Carl Fogarty. Though he has starred in many reality shows, singing is his main passion and what he always returns to. Jake first tried out on The X Factor in 2012 where he sailed through the first round of auditions with a rendition of Kings of Leon’s Use Somebody. He failed to win over Nicole Scherzinger at judges houses and she opted to take Rylan Clark to the live shows over him. Returning in 2014, Jake had better luck – making it through to the live shows and has since released an EP, I Want You, in 2015, and an album New Chapter, in 2016. Jake starred in Dancing On Ice 2018 - winning the show with partner Vanessa Bauer. Now the singer is back with a new song, When You Kiss Him, and is set to star as George Berger in Hair the musical later this year. Jake suffered a tragedy when his dad, Paul Quickenden, died in 2008, after battling a freak case of non-familial bone cancer. Jake's brother Oliver was diagnosed with osteosarcoma - the most common form - in 2010 when he was only 16. Oliver passed away in 2012 surrounded by his family, with Jake keeping their memory close and photos of his father and brother around his home. Got a story? email [email protected] or call us direct on 02077824220. We pay for videos too. Click here to upload yours.
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Mary Gallagher
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/8124365/inside-jake-quickenden-mansion-dog-motorbike-chickens/
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2019-01-05 00:54:26+00:00
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thesun--2019-04-10--The worst interior design fails from creepy toilet statues to floral wallpapered bathrooms
| 2019-04-10T00:00:00 |
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The worst interior design fails from creepy toilet statues to floral wallpapered bathrooms
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DECORATING a house can be a fun experience when it comes down to what reflects your personality. However, some homeowners went one step too far when it came to wanting something unique. Some of the worst bathroom and bedroom fails have been revealed which will scare any interior designer. From sperm-shaped sinks to floral toilets, the houses will certainly be difficult to sell on afterwards... It's not just houses which have the worst interior - hotels have also fallen victim to some baffling designs and ornaments. Bathroom blunders, confusing doors and horrifying artwork have been spotted and shared online by previous guests. Willy-shaped swimming pools and badly-translated signs are some of the ruder designs found in hotels abroad.
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Kara Godfrey
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/8833074/house-interior-design-fails-bathroom-bedroom-horrors/
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2019-04-10 13:38:53+00:00
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thesun--2019-04-15--Interior designer reveals the simple changes to update your home in minutes and some of them are V
| 2019-04-15T00:00:00 |
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Interior designer reveals the simple changes to update your home in minutes – and some of them are VERY cheap
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IF you want to give your home a new lease of life, or are planning on selling, an expert has revealed cheap tricks to transform and update any room. Redecorating can be expensive, so if you're planning on moving soon it doesn't make sense to spend lots of money, or you may be on a tight budget to begin with. But expert Justine Wilson, director of Vault Interiors, has shared the simple 'finishing touches' you can make which won't break the bank. Speaking to Femail, she outlined some key interior tips - and the first is choosing a single 'accent' colour to run throughout your house. It doesn't have to be paint, as cushions, a book, flowers or even a photo on the wall featuring the 'pop' of colour is enough. Open-plan living is also desirable for most people, so try and maximise space by moving furniture if you can't knock down a wall. And swapping dated lampshades for pendant lighting can be a quick and easy way to add value, or update, a room. A central feature of the home, the dining table, is one area which can really shine, says Justine. She said: "A nice table runner or eye-catching centrepiece can be the difference between your room looking enticing or just average." You can accessorize with flowers, candles, some eye-catching cutlery and crockery for the finished product. Bathrooms are another important area which shouldn't be overlooked. Justine says try and create a 'spa' atmosphere with candles and flowers, and decorative products will help achieve the look. And she advised hiding all daily products, such as toothpaste, to give the room a high-end feel. She said: "Coloured towels, scented candles and soap dispensers can go a long way to dress up a tired space." If you have a bit more money to spend, she said free-standing tubs, large tiles and rainfall showers were easy ways to create a designer look. The bedroom is where we spend a lot, if not most of our time, when at home. But it's really easy to give it a new lease of life as well through clever styling. Matching lamps and adding your 'pop' of colour can help transform the room. Justine said: "A simple bedspread can be elevated by adding in some scatter cushions and a bed throw." While some people may not think of their garden as an extension of their home, it can add value to your property if selling, or enjoyment if you're staying. Justine advises homeowners to view their garden as another room or space, and try and continue the flow from inside to outside. She said: "Scatter cushions across the lounge setting, add small potted plants to the table and hang up some lanterns to create a relaxing and peaceful ambience." The key thing is to create "atmosphere" she said, while choosing one neutral colour as a base, adding beige and grey are this season's must-haves. Plus people are sharing the incredible home transformations they achieved using just tester pots of paint. This mum managed an entire kitchen makeover, just using B&M worktops. And this will certainly inspire you to change, after one woman revealed all the dirt lurking in her mattress after she vacuumed it.
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Rebecca Flood
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/8867477/cheap-interior-design-tips-home-update/
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2019-04-15 14:43:38+00:00
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thesun--2019-04-17--Kids dream bedrooms drawn up from their imagination are made into reality by interior designers
| 2019-04-17T00:00:00 |
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Kids’ dream bedrooms drawn up from their imagination are made into reality by interior designers
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A GROUP of children have had their dreams turned into reality after a team of design experts recreated their perfect bedrooms. Home services site, Angie's List, asked children around the world to draw their ideal bedroom - and then surprised them by recreating a magical real-life version. Using their imagination, the children - aged between 5 and 10 - were allowed to draw whatever they wanted in their personalised rooms, before the team of designers brought their ideas to life. From Spain to the Philippines, England and Pakistan, each room was recreated in a warehouse where the children could play. Understandably, the rooms couldn't become their actual bedrooms, but they still had a magical time in their dream room. From slides to a colourful jigsaw wall and a five-tier bunk bed, these look seriously epic. One little girl's room even had fluffy white clouds while others had huge leafy trees and chic white sofas. Which room is your favourite? Earlier this week, we told you about the pregnant woman whose rant went viral after stranger puts her coffee in the BIN, because ‘she’s not allowed’ to drink it. We also revealed one mum has praised Head & Shoulders £1.50 shampoo as an ‘unbelievable’ chicken pox treatment. And we showed you Asda has been blasted over ‘sexist’ kids clothes with boys’ slogans saying ‘active little man’ while girls are ‘oh so pretty’.
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Lucy Devine
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/8883643/kids-dream-bedrooms-interior-designers/
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2019-04-17 15:13:11+00:00
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thetelegraph--2019-01-12--Pared-back practical and perfectly elegant inside interior stylist Maria Le Mesuriers Sussex coun
| 2019-01-12T00:00:00 |
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Pared-back, practical and perfectly elegant: inside interior stylist Maria Le Mesurier's Sussex country home
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The walls of Maria Le Mesurier’s country home on the Uppark estate in West Sussex are lined with baskets, of every shape, size and period imaginable. Handmade from natural wicker, seagrass or straw, they have been collected over a lifetime of travels to Italy, Spain and much-loved Madeira – the home of her late father, the Madeira-winemaker John Cossart. ‘For me they are like works of art, and each has a story to tell,’ says Maria, an interior stylist. ‘I love the rawness of their form and their simple aesthetic; and, of course, they provide invaluable storage.’ With five children – three from her first marriage (Alfred, 15, Pearl, 13, and Gio, 10); and two from her second, eight years ago, to Paul Le Mesurier, a cousin of the actor John (Dolly, five, and Rocky, two) – she makes design choices based largely on simplicity. ‘The more children I had, the fewer complications I needed, whether that be in life, belongings or furniture,’ she says. ‘My style is smart without frills, but ordered and always natural. Juggling a busy family life and work, my head can feel like the inside of a handbag, so for me organisation and a streamlined home are key.’ The family moved into their new home five years ago. ‘We were living like sardines in a small converted farm building nearby,’ says Maria, so they decided to do a house swap with her mother, who had the opposite problem and felt she had too much space. Situated amid beautiful West Sussex countryside, the 17th-century Uppark estate had been inherited by Maria’s great-grandfather, Admiral the Hon Sir Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh, in the 1930s. When the war ended, he and his son approached the National Trust and asked it to take on Uppark to protect it for the future, and in 1954 the main property passed to the Trust, while the extended family continued living within the house and on the estate. In the late 1980s tragedy hit when Uppark was devastated by fire: Maria and her family lost all their possessions and her parents moved into the former stables, where her mother remained until the house swap.
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Ali Heath
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/interiors/home/pared-back-practical-perfectly-elegant-inside-interior-stylist/
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2019-01-12 08:00:00+00:00
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thetelegraph--2019-02-26--Beige is the new grey interior designers say it is new must-have colour to paint your home
| 2019-02-26T00:00:00 |
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Beige is the new grey: interior designers say it is new must-have colour to paint your home
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While the idea of painting your home beige may seem uninspiring, toasty colours are replacing the cool greys which have been in fashion for a decade. Interior designers and high-end paint sellers are celebrating warm off-white colours and encouraging people to paint their homes beige. Charlotte Cosby, Head of Creative at Farrow and Ball told The Telegraph: "There is a real movement towards brown based tones and warm woody neutrals, stepping away from the cooler greys that have filled homes for the last ten years. "Our new colour Jitney is a great example of this, offering a sandier update on beige that feels altogether more fitting for today’s modern home."
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Helena Horton
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/26/beige-new-grey-interior-designers-say-new-must-have-colour-paint/
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2019-02-26 16:50:12+00:00
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activistpost--2019-05-19--Attract Butterflies and Bees to Your Garden by Reducing WiFi Radiation Frequencies
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Attract Butterflies and Bees to Your Garden by Reducing WiFi Radiation Frequencies
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A happy garden is a wireless-free garden. Decades of research has already determined that plants and insects as well as animals and people are harmed by exposure to wireless radiation. This flyer provides details on how to eliminate or at least reduce these sources for California residents who want a healthy garden. Of course, the same suggestions apply to gardeners everywhere. Make your garden safer and happier for bees, birds, trees, plants, wildlife, and you. Reduce wireless microwave radiation in and around your home. It interferes with learning, fertility, neurology, immunity, navigation, sleep, DNA, and overall biology of wildlife and humans. Here are some steps: For more information: Physicians for Safe Technology www.MDsafetech.org Protect the Earth. It starts with you! Protect the Earth. It starts with you! Protect the Earth. It starts with you! Protect the Earth. It starts with you! Tens of millions of utility “Smart” Meters have been installed throughout the U.S. and around the world so it’s likely that you have them unless you have already “opted out.” These meters have also been associated with many other awful issues besides killing plants and repelling insects. Free documentary, Take Back Your Power, provides more details. People everywhere hate these meters and are fighting to get them off their homes and out of their communities (See 1, 2, 3). For more information, visit the following websites: Be Free and Independent! Get a free issue of Counter Markets today.
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https://www.activistpost.com/2019/05/attract-butterflies-and-bees-to-your-garden-by-reducing-wifi-radiation-frequencies.html
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2019-05-19 15:18:43+00:00
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birminghammail--2019-06-19--Dad builds outdoor garden bar for 30 using just BQ paint and crates
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Dad builds outdoor garden bar for £30 using just B&Q paint and crates
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A dad has built a stylish outdoor bar - using just B&Q paint and crates. The nifty creation from the dad set him back just £30. The bargain bar was met warmly when it was shared on social media. The dad posted updates on Facebook group Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK. He began with three wooden pallets nailed together at their narrow ends while upright to create half a cube. On top of the structure three floating shelves were attached, providing the surface to mix drinks, Mirror Online reports. A lick of outdoor paint was then applied, costing just £7. The woman wrote in the captions of the photos: "Hi guys. "Would like to share an idea. "Might be not to everyone's taste but I love it. “So I asked my hubby to build me a bar in garden for my birthday party. "The idea was to make it a cheap project. “Considering that my other half is not into DIY it has turned out great. "So all the pallets and worktops offcuts were free from B&Q and some local retail places. “That's the final result which cost only fraction of what you have to pay for ready made one.” The impressive work led to an outpouring of appreciation from fellow bargain enthusiasts. The post also inspired others to share their homemade bars. One woman uploaded photos of her back garden, which had decking made by her husband entirely out of old pallets. The original poster returned to the page to thank her new fans. “Thank you all for your kind comments," she said. "Never thought that this many people will like our project. "So glad to inspire so many of you. “Wish you all luck and can't wait to see the results. "Maybe accidentally we have started a new summer must have project. "Now we just all need lovely summer to make a good use out of our bars. “Please always remember to drink responsibly and share with others."
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https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/dad-builds-outdoor-garden-bar-16453278
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2019-06-19 12:40:18+00:00
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