Abstract
The book entitled Why Demography Matters (written by Danny Dorling and Stuart Gietel-Basten) describes the role of demography in shaping humans’ perception of the world. It tries to highlight the excesses of competence, too hasty conclusions, and mistakes in the assessment of the world around us and in visions of what the future of mankind will look like from the demographic point of view.
Highlights
From Giacomo Girolamo Casanova: “There is no such thing as destiny
From the very beginning in the introduction and later in the following chapters, the authors try to fight the common simplistic beliefs connected with demographic change
The first of them can be explained as succumbing to the will of state and latter as being dependent on unstoppable demographic forces called by the authors ‘demography as destiny’
Summary
From Giacomo Girolamo Casanova: “There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives”. The book entitled Why Demography Matters (written by Danny Dorling and Stuart Gietel-Basten) describes the role of demography in shaping humans’ perception of the world. From the very beginning in the introduction and later in the following chapters, the authors try to fight the common simplistic beliefs connected with demographic change.
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