Episode 05: Ian Mortimer
The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly
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The Sustainable Future?
A sustainable future has to see a decline in the world's population growth. We have a lot of land whereby we can grow enough food for the world’s population. There is no reason why we cannot sustain a very large population on Earth. Even the larger population we have at the moment, but it cannot carry on growing after it has got to a larger size because we do need to stabilize everything with finite resources.
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