General Article Why is nobody willing to say the ‘P’ word?

Topic Selected: Changing Population Book Volume: 435

Population growth is one of the top two drivers of climate and ecological destruction,

writes Donnachadh McCarthy.

With extraordinarily apt timing, the terrifying global ‘eight billion people day’ arrived in the middle of the failed Cop27 in Egypt. It came just 11 years after the previous ‘seven billion day’ in 2011. And the UN predicts we will pass 10 billion day by 2080.

We are adding 80 million to the global population annually. That is just under the population of Britain, Belgium and Ire...

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