Sustainable Population: Earth4All Approach - Population Matters
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Earth4All’s recent People and Planet report is the latest attempt at modelling sustainable population projections through the 21st century. It caused a number of exaggerated newspaper headlines, but are its projections of a significant fall in population by 2100 plausible?
The release of a new report caused a bit of a stir at the end of March. The Guardian’s headline ran ‘World “population bomb” may never go off as feared, finds study’, and many people took to Twitter to ask questions along the lines of, ‘What were you worried about?’.
While Twitter is probably not your first port of call for reasoned debate and nuanced opinion, just what was all the fuss about?
What is the ‘ideal’ population size?
The question of what population size is environmentally sustainable has been addressed multiple times. While estimates have ranged from as low as 100 million, the most frequently occurring figure is 2-3 billion. Others have taken a different approach and posed the question of whether a go...
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