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Population Paradox: Are Declining Birth Rates Good or Bad for the World?

Deep Dish on Global Affairs

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The Implications for the Environment

Human population has grown faster than any other large animal population on the planet. It's grown larger and with more devastating consequences for life on earth than we've seen from any other species. Any model that's based on infinite growth in a finite planet is just untenable. We're seeing this play out in real time, just like we're seeing some of these predictions about where populations are going to go happening now.

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