Issue 429 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
January-February 2010
Jan/Feb 2010
With world population at around 6.7 billion and predicted to hit 9 billion by 2050, we are in the grip of a new panic about numbers. But is it reasonable? This month's NI sifts the evidence.
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The missing pieces
Is hell really other people? *Vanessa Baird* concludes with some sobering facts and reflections on equality.
Population and climate change
*Jonathon Porritt* and *the Corner House* offer two very different perspectives on one of the big debates of the day.
Adoration
A film about how far we know and trust others, and how other people make us who we are, partly through the stories we hear.
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