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Thinning out, not cooling off: Climate crisis and the dip in global population
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Thinning out, not cooling off: Climate crisis and the dip in global population

Hindustan Times  

For over two centuries, the spectre of overpopulation has haunted global debates about food security, sustainability and the environment. A 2023 study by researchers at the University of Texas in Austin makes a convincing case that “contemporaneous fertility rates are, essentially, quantitatively irrelevant to our climate future.” According to the study’s findings, the difference in long-run temperature rise between population …

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Darwin must stay in Indian school textbooks
1 year, 7 months ago

Darwin must stay in Indian school textbooks

The Hindu  

In 2018, the then Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Satyapal Singh, called Darwin’s theory of evolution “scientifically wrong” and asked that it be removed from Indian school and college curricula. The next year, the Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University, Nageswara Rao Gollapalli, made a claim at the 106th Indian Science Congress, that the “theory of Dashavatara” explains evolution better than …

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Welcoming earth’s 8-billionth living person
2 years, 1 month ago

Welcoming earth’s 8-billionth living person

The Hindu  

Around mid-November, the world will have its 8 billionth living human being, according to an estimate from the United Nations. The replacement fertility rate, which is 2.1 births per woman, is the minimum required to simply maintain the human population. Yet, amid sharply falling fertility levels and the clear risk of a shrinking human population, the consensus view today is …

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How many people can Earth handle?
2 years, 3 months ago

How many people can Earth handle?

BBC  

How many people can Earth handle? Fast-forward 74,000 years and our once-obscure species of hairless ape has undergone a population explosion, colonising nearly every habitat on the planet and exerting our influence on even the remotest corners – in 2018, scientists found a plastic bag 10,898m below the ocean's surface at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, while another team …

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The cautionary tale behind population control
3 years, 5 months ago

The cautionary tale behind population control

Hindustan Times  

The Covid-19 pandemic may have fast-tracked the oncoming peak of a global population decline by at least a decade, according to a recent Bloomberg report. Malthus had argued that if per capita income is greater than subsistence level, then the population starts growing initially, but there’s a physical limit to the population growth of around 3% beyond which population growth …

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