Fertility in Australia has dropped to the point that without migration the population will start dropping from 2037.
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Most of the problems confronting the world come down to population growth. But where women are given the choice, they limit the number of children they have.
If the Earth were ever subsumed into a single cityscape, it would collapse under the weight of its own ecological footprint.
Quite how to gauge the size of a city – or where one ends and the next begins – is getting harder to determine. The 21st century belongs to the limitless city.
Only insects populations can compare to rising human numbers.
Arguments about population growth are unhelpful, distracting and often racist.
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