First the good news: great progress has already been made! It turns out women around the world are on board with zero population growth! It turns out zero population growth is not all that difficult or expensive to achieve! The bad news: the people with wealth and power in the world are largely uninterested in funding it. Ok, let’s back up. The rapid expansion of human population past the finite limits of what our planet…
The population problem: Not as bad as you might think
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