GROWING PAINS
Jill Hudson (Letters, issue 315) says that overpopulation has been the elephant in the room for far too long and congratulates both Chris Packham and an earlier letter writer, Andrew Rivett, for drawing attention to it. All three imply that the solution lies in the education of women and increased global use of birth control.
Andrew Rivett says that our numbers are increasing exponentially. They are not. Populations are indeed increasing, but the increase has been linear since the second half of the 20th century and is predicted to start levelling off towards the end of ...
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