
8 billion: an overpopulation crisis?
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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The Carbon Footprint of a Baby Boomer
One of the reasons for the underlying pressures on public spending leading in term to the increases in taxes is quite simply that we have increased numbers of pensioners and also as the boomers age. There's also increasing pressures on the NHS so that process of the change in the age composition of your population means at first you go through a sweet spot when all this surge in the population takes place. But our kids and then our grandchildren eventually are going to make a massive adjustment of producing far less carbon dioxide they can still let's hope enjoy prosperity but they're going to be treading much more lightly through the world doing far less damage and producing far less CO2 than we've done.
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