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Boris Johnson: Global overpopulation is the real issue

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I really liked this article, which is from 2007. Depending on how fast you read, the population of the planet is growing with every word that skitters beneath your eyeball. There are more than 211,000 people being added every day, and a population the size of Germany every year. As someone who has now been travelling around the world for decades, I see this change, and I feel it. You can smell it in the traffic jams of the Middle East. You can see it as you fly over Africa at night, and you see mile after mile of fires burning red in the dark, as the scrub is removed to make way for human beings.The TelegraphBoris Johnson: Global overpopulation is the real issueArithmetic, Population, and Energy, a talk by Al Bartlett  [embedded content]

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I really liked this article, which is from 2007.

Depending on how fast you read, the population of the planet is growing with every word that skitters beneath your eyeball. There are more than 211,000 people being added every day, and a population the size of Germany every year.

As someone who has now been travelling around the world for decades, I see this change, and I feel it. You can smell it in the traffic jams of the Middle East. You can see it as you fly over Africa at night, and you see mile after mile of fires burning red in the dark, as the scrub is removed to make way for human beings.

The Telegraph

Boris Johnson: Global overpopulation is the real issue

Arithmetic, Population, and Energy, a talk by Al Bartlett 


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