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Yale Environment 360: The hard part about predicting the future, someone once said, is that it hasn’t happened yet. So it’s a bit curious that so few experts question the received demographic wisdom that the Earth will be home to roughly 9 billion people in 2050 and a stable 10 billion at the century’s end. Demographers seem comfortable projecting that life expectancy will keep rising while birth rates drift steadily downward, until human numbers hold steady with 3 billion more people than are alive today.
What’s odd......
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Revisiting Population Growth: The Impact of Ecological Limits
Posted by Yale Environment 360: Robert Engelman on October 13th, 2011
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