The New Population Bomb: The Four Mega-trends That Will Change the World

The New Population Bomb: The Four Mega-trends That Will Change the World

Introduction

The illuminating and fascinating essay, “The New Population Bomb: The Four Mega-trends That Will Change the World,” is written by Jack A. Goldstone. This essay was published in the Foreign Affairs, which is the leading publications in the US. This essay refers to the book, “The Population Bomb,” written by Anne and Paul Ehrlich. This book was published in the year 1980 and the authors predicted global starvation as the population will dramatically increase and the food production will be decreased. This paper discusses and analyzes the essay the new population bomb written by Jack A. Goldstone.

Discussion

In this essay, Goldstone indicates that the perditions in the Ehrlich's book have not come true. This has been because of the increase in the productivity of agricultural activities, the green revolution, the family planning and other different developments in political, technological, social and economic sectors. As per the statistics of Population Division of the United Nations, the population of the world will become stable in the year 2075 which will be around 9.2 billion. It is also predicted that the prospects of growth and development in global economic output, barring calamity and global economy is to be increased by 2 or 3% in a year (Goldstone, 2010). This means that the worldwide income will increase gradually and more quickly as compared to the world's population. According to Goldstone the world will not starve as per the predictions of Ehrlich.

The increase in the population of the world is merely one issue that has been discussed in the book and the essay. It is significant to take into consideration the worldwide trends in the demographic within the background of the growth in population. The ...