Population Control - The Bomb of Human Katastrophe

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We're headed towards a world where there simply will be too many people, she says. The one child policy in China is "a story of pain and loss" People realize that if our population goes up at the rate that is going, their children won't be alive.

The United Nations says humanity has reached 8 billion, but Western nations are worried about population decline. Africa isn’t, though. The continent is about to shape the rest of the century.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Cristian Ayala, and edited by Sean Rameswaram who also hosted.

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