
8 billion: an overpopulation crisis?
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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Trying to solve out economic and environmental challenges by reducing population is like trying to treat the symptoms of a disease without actually dealing with the underlying cause. We can't meaningfully reduce our population in an ethical way either before it starts to curtail itself naturally so it seems that a much better use of our limited time and resources is instead to strive for sustainable consumption and education, says Pethley Mokalgaard. Next week we'll be hearing about the origins of tectonic plates over three billion years ago and the animals that are sensitive to magnetic fields when they migrate sleep or hunt for food.
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