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Are There Too Many People?

Past Present Future

CHAPTER

The Problem With Population

There is something about being alive now, as you said, at this moment, which makes these questions acute. To think about what it would mean to bring a child into the world who would be alive in 50 years time - that's not Malthusian at all. If population is the problem, then the solution is about having less babies. It's about women's bodies and fertility and fewer humans on the planet.

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