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There is a popular notion that to effectively solve climate change and other environmental ills, the problem of ‘exponential population growth’ has to be necessarily solved. Strict birth control is touted to prevent doomsday. In the past, there had been concrete efforts to stem the burgeoning human population on the planet. Forced vasectomies [...]

Eighteen centuries ago, the population of the world was only approximately 200 million. Today, it is 34 times that number. The ever-ballooning human population is deemed as the single biggest problem facing the planet. ‘There are nearly 7 billion humans alive today, twice as many as there were in 1965, with 75 million more being added each year. UN [...]

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued a forecast this week that ‘world food production must increase by 70 percent by 2050, to nourish a human population then likely to be 9.1 billion people.’ The current world population is 6.8 billion, says the UN. According to FAO Assistant Director-General Hafez Ghanem, “FAO is cautiously [...]

The caveat hangs over our heads: unless we make drastic changes, conditions on this planet will get even worse in terms of population explosion, depletion of natural resources that are inescapably finite, and the ever-growing problem on global warming that has been altering the climate and changing physical and social conditions on earth. Now, latest [...]