In europe, the challenges come with what happens with an aging population. If you are in africa, you face very different challenges. You need your economies to be strong enough to create jobs for these people. In some countries, that's not happening. And another problem is that if you have tw and a half billion more people on the planet, by 20 80 there will be two and a half million more people emitting greenhouse gases.
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition figure, has been transferred to a brutal prison. Other Kremlin opponents have been imprisoned or exiled, as Russia has grown more repressive since invading Ukraine. The world’s population will hit 8bn this year; we discuss which regions are growing and which are not. And why clear wine bottles are a bad idea.
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