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27 Jul 2020 3 minute read

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In an uncertain global future, is it ethical to have children?

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter...

9 Jun 2020 19 minute read

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Hitting the population brakes

Popular wisdom has it that everything is speeding up, including population growth. Danny Dorling shows just...

Since the 1970s, the world’s human population has doubled to 7.7 billion.

13 Nov 2019 6 minute read

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Is concern about population growth exaggerated?

Does obsession with population size miss the point? Mohan Rao and Sara Parkin weigh in on...

31 Mar 2018 7 minute read

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How can famines be ended?

To wipe out mass starvation we must engage with the politics that drive it, argues Alex de Waal.

23 Jul 2015 3 minute read

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Fracking goes on trial

News of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is an important step toward truth, argues Julie Wassmer.

1 Mar 2015 6 minute read

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Race science rears its ugly head

Racism disguised as academic research must be robustly challenged, argues Gavin Evans.

8 Jul 2014 3 minute read

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Forget population policies: give women choice and control

Lana Groves argues that the best way to reduce fertility rates is to improve women and girls’ schooling.

10 Aug 2013 3 minute read

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Is migration green?

Why Population Matters has got it wrong on immigration, Manishta Sunnia and Benali Hamdache...

1 Mar 2013 1 minute read

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World Progress 1970-2010 - The Facts

Steps forward, steps back - what effect have 40 years of development had?

Who profits from the 7 billion population frenzy?

1 Nov 2011 4 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

Who profits from the 7 billion population frenzy?

Vanessa Baird on why, when it comes to human numbers, nothing sells like fear.

Is the world's population really a timebomb?

31 Oct 2011 2 minute read

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Is the world's population really a timebomb?

The UN estimates there will be seven billion of us on this planet by the end of October. But talk of a 'population explosion'...

Seven billion - the no-nonsense guide to population growth

26 Oct 2011 3 minute read

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Seven billion - the no-nonsense guide to population growth

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4 Mar 2010 1 minute read

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Population - the panic grows

Enter the babies of mass destruction...

2 Jan 2010 9 minute read

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Too many people?

Vanessa Baird wonders why the demographers aren’t panicking.

2 Jan 2010 2 minute read

This article is more than 13 years old.

Blame the coffee

Why tiny Timor Leste is undergoing a baby boom.

2 Jan 2010 3 minute read

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Ageing - 7 myths

The average age of the population is increasing – people are living longer. Also, women are having fewer children. But is this...

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