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Why falling birth rates will be a bigger problem than overpopulation

Nearly every country is predicted to have a birth rate that is too low to maintain its population by 2100, which may result in too few people of working age

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Why falling birth rates will be a bigger problem than overpopulation

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The weird tale of California Forever, a tech billionaire instant city

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A road sign is posted near a parcel of land recently purchased by Flannery Associates near Rio Vista, California on September 15, 2023. A stealth campaign by Silicon Valley elites with a dream of turning a swath of California farmland into a new age city has ranchers who live here challenging their tactics as well as their motives. The project first surfaced when a mysterious buyer started gobbling up parcels of land in this rural outback between San Francisco and Sacramento. The buyer, first revealed by the New York Times in August, turned out to be a secretive outfit called Flannery Associates. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

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Reducing inequality could see world population fall to 6 billion

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It's now or never – we need to achieve a sustainable human population

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It's now or never – we need to achieve a sustainable human population

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Despite reaching 8 billion people, we must plan for population decline

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Despite reaching 8 billion people, we must plan for population decline

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Tackling population growth is key to fighting climate change

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Tackling population growth is key to fighting climate change

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Fewer than expected boys were born in England and Wales three months after lockdown was introduced

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Fewer boys born in England and Wales in early stage of the pandemic

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Baby boomers are the unhappiest generation in the UK

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Baby boomers are the unhappiest generation in the UK

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

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If we can't change the world, does anything we do matter?

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If we can't change the world, does anything we do matter?

It’s easy to be disheartened by the puniness of our existence – yet perhaps for the first time in human history, everything depends on decisions each one of us makes

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The covid-19 pandemic has reignited questions about population size

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The covid-19 pandemic has reignited questions about population size

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Paul Ehrlich: There are too many super-consumers on the planet

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Paul Ehrlich: There are too many super-consumers on the planet

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The population debate: Are there too many people on the planet?

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The population debate: Are there too many people on the planet?

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Science journalist Angela Saini

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The return of race science: an interview with Angela Saini

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