POPULATION Lifestyles and policies ensure population peril ahead*

For as long as most of us can remember, we have been told that the world is overpopulated. But, within our children’s lifetime, the world population will peak, and then begin to fall. What happens to each of us as we age is now imminent at the global level. Estimates vary but, according to the United Nations, by the year 2100, the world’s population will be in the region of 11 billion. Others estimate it will be around 9.5 billion; we are dealing with human beings, so we can&…

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