The median ages of populations are expected to continue rising over the coming decades. East Nanjing Road, Shanghai, China. Credit: Shutterstock. Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Monday, January 16, 2023 Inter Press Service PORTLAND, USA, Jan 16 (IPS) – Demography doesn’t care about such things as national strikes over pension…
Over the past fifty years the world’s life expectancy at birth increased by 16 years, i.e., from 56 in 1970 to 72 in 2020. Credit: Maricel Sequeira/IPS by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Friday, December 23, 2022 Inter Press Service PORTLAND, USA, Dec 23 (IPS) – Despite the objections, resistance and protests…
Credit: UNOHCR. Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Thursday, December 01, 2022 Inter Press Service PORTLAND, USA, Dec 01 (IPS) – Illegal immigration has evolved into a mounting crisis for a growing number of countries worldwide and governments appear to be at a loss on how to deal with the crisis….
Source: U.S. Census Bureau. Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Wednesday, November 23, 2022 Inter Press Service PORTLAND, USA, Nov 23 (IPS) – Countries worldwide, and as different as India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Israel and Italy, are struggling with the issue of how best to balance diversity and meritocracy across…
Source: United Nations. Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Tuesday, November 08, 2022 Inter Press Service Moreover, that fancied collapse of world population is neither the biggest problem facing the world nor is that false notion a much bigger risk to civilization than climate change, which is certainly humanity’s greatest challenge….
Republicans in general favor less immigration than Democrats. For example, a national Gallup poll in July 2022 found that the proportion saying immigration to America should be decreased was 69 percent among Republicans versus 17 percent among Democrats. Credit: Guillermo Arias / IPS Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Monday, October…
The current Israeli prime minister, Yair Lapid, speaking at the opening of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, expressed his government’s backing for a two-state solution with the Palestinians. Credit: UN Photo/Cia Pak Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Thursday, October 13, 2022 Inter Press Service PORTLAND, USA,…
Source: United Nations. Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Monday, October 03, 2022 Inter Press Service PORTLAND, USA, Oct 03 (IPS) – While the world’s population of 8 billion is continuing to increase and projected to reach 9 billion by 2037 and 10 billion by 2058, considerable diversity in the population…
The nonacceptance of the climate change crisis persists despite its increasingly visible worldwide consequences. Credit: Manipadma Jena/IPS Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Monday, September 19, 2022 Inter Press Service PORTLAND, USA, Sep 19 (IPS) – Many people around the world, especially those among the political far-right, do not accept the…
Sizable differences in the levels of children dying persist especially between more developed and less developed regions. Credit: Franz Chávez/IPS Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Monday, September 05, 2022 Inter Press Service PORTLAND, USA, Sep 05 (IPS) – The chances of a child dying before reaching age five years have…
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