Are There Too Many People?
Past Present Future
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The Importance of Projections in the 20th Century
David Runtzman: If there is a lesson here from Malthus, 2100 is quite a long way away. Even something as broad as the percentage of the global population that will be living in Africa in 2100 is a hostage to fortune. He projected into a future that turns out not to exist and demographers certainly have been wrong. Next week on Past Present Future, I'm going to be talking to the writer Tara Westover and the philosopher Claire Chambers about a 19th century thinker, John Stuart Mill.
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