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The complex link between population decline and a warming planet. Credit - CC0 Public Domain
The complex link between population decline and a warming planet
June 11, 2021

It's time to stop blaming overpopulation for our environmental woes and start looking at the factors that really matter—resource consumption and toxic exposure as population growth and fertility rates show downward trends. U.S. and global populations are both growing at slower rates.

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Children on the streets of Delhi, India. India has the second-worst air quality in the world that is cutting short the average life expectancy of Indians by 5.2 years. Photograph: 8 Billion Angels Productions
‘It’s a massive injustice’: inside a film on the dangers of overpopulation
May 5, 2021

In 8 Billion Angels, a new documentary about the rising population, experts explain how it will be those consuming less who will face the worst consequences...It’s a film about the connection between climate change and overpopulation, demonstrated through the intersection between human geography

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The Commission for the Human Future says humanity’s existential threats are interconnected and must be solved simultaneously and ‘in ways that make none of them worse’. Photograph: AGB Photo Library/Rex Features
Ten threats to humanity's survival identified in Australian report calling for action
April 24, 2020

Governments should use the urgency of the Covid-19 pandemic to address 10 potentially catastrophic threats to the survival of the human race, according to a report by a collection of prominent Australian researchers and public figures.

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