Dustin Whitney is a modern-day business executive with balance in his life. Most of his career has been spent growing and developing small entrepreneurial companies. Innovative thinking and good use of common sense have helped his business succeed. As a people person as well as a business person, Dustin has always been interested in what people do, and how they do it. Dustin is focused on building teams and fostering collaboration. The goal is to bring people and ideas together to facilitate progress and success.
Dustin now uses his 25+ years of business executive experience paired with a passion and mission to uncover and analyze global trends to help businesses understand how those trends impact long-term business growth. Partnering with different-sized organizations, from start-ups to large-scale manufacturing companies across many verticals, Dustin brings different insights that enhance strategic business planning for the future.
In 2022, demographers at the United Nations announced that the global human population had surpassed 8 billion people. Headline after headline repeated what most of us already believed: Our numbers were spiraling under control, threatening the health of our planet and everything on it.
A close examination of key data like fertility rates and median age reveals that the opposite is true. We’re not in danger of overpopulation—it’s underpopulation we should be worrying about!
Aging and declining populations will herald massive changes. Some could be positive, like lower carbon emissions and reduced demand for limited resources. But plummeting populations could also portend serious economic upheaval caused by too few working-age people producing too few goods and services.
How the effects of aging and declining populations play out will depend on how well we prepare. But we can’t plan for these changes if no one knows they’re coming.
That’s the purpose of Demographic Deception: Exposing the Overpopulation Myth and Building a Resilient Future: to warn leaders and everyday citizens of our real population problem, and to offer critical insights and ideas to solve it.
