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World’s population hits 8 billion, UN says – BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88NmgyGvCpU
The world's population has hit eight billion, just 11 years after passing the seven-billion milestone, the United Nations has said.
After a big surge in the middle of the 20th Century, population growth is already slowing down.
It could take 15 years to reach nine billion and the UN doesn't expect to reach 10 billion until 2080.
It's hard to calculate the number of people in the world accurately, and the UN admits its sums could be out by a year or two.
How Many People Could Live On Earth? | Earth Unplugged
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoBgE2C7-Js
Maddie Moate examines how many people could live on our planet and what we can do to help things in the future. What do you think should happen?
What poor children need
October 19, 2023
https://www.zawya.com/en/opinion/economic-insights/what-poor-children-need-lkygd6j6
The NAS volume is loaded with direct evidence that investments in lower-income families, as well as their schools and neighborhoods, can improve their life chances
Michael R. Strain and Harry J. Holzer, Project Syndicate
‘The Limits to Growth’: A Book That Launched a Movement
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/limits-growth-book-launched-movement/
This mega-bestseller has been attacked repeatedly since its publication forty years ago, but its warnings about the climate were alarmingly prescient.
Christian Parenti
Christian Parenti is a Nation contributing editor and faculty in New York University’s Global Liberal Studies program.
Are there too many of us on our planet? Yes!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6f5YGpmkICerBDf6tgXvs0?si=RyVVaQJ-TBa8TDUk32yKzA&nd=1
The Overpopulation Podcast
Is overpopulation killing the planet?
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/overpopulation-climate-crisis-energy-resources-1.6853542
Some experts predict global population may peak as early as 2050 or at the latest by 2100 Bruce Livesey
BirthStrike: The people refusing to have kids, because of ‘the ecological crisis’
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/05/health/birthstrike-climate-change-scn-intl/index.html
Climate change is rapidly changing the environment we live in. But how far would you be willing to go to help save the planet?
Would you skip school? Eat pig’s feet? Deliberately get arrested? How about forgo having kids?
By Stephanie Bailey, CNN - London
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