Seminar. The desert and the anthill. Demographic and annihilation anxieties
of Scipione Guarracino - Adriano leads the debate Voltolin
old demographic fears related to individual catastrophic events (a plague or a famine) that could be thought of as the punishment inflicted by God to the sins of men.
Fears demographic modern touch rather near future, which lies within a few decades. In 60-70 years, for example, the world population or some countries will be multiplied by eight and, on the contrary, other countries, between 40 to 50 years age groups of over-60 account for 30, 40 ... 60 percent of the total population. Fears related: in one case the people who are competing food, water, space. In the other, the invasion of prolific people who come to destroy our civilization.
In the case of overcrowding or imminent, although a decrease in the birth rate does not prevent the younger age groups that already exist to continue the increase until the breaking point. In the case of impending depopulation, abnormal weight of age groups already out of the sphere of fertility makes insignificant any increase in the birth rate. The terrifying demographic projections depend only on human behavior, but create an 'anxiety of the inevitable equal to that of a divine punishment.
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 18:00 Admission free
Associazione Culturale Punto Rosso Via Guglielmo Pepe, 14 - Milan
(MM2 Garibaldi)
