Next week there will be 8 billion of us, and that’s already too many
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According to the UN, the world’s 8 billionth person will arrive any day now, on a planet whose resources are being overtaxed by managing with just 7,999,999,999 of us. To mark The Day of 8 Billion on November 15, we look at what scientists are most concerned about when it comes to population growth, how population impacts are inextricably linked with consumption, and how to ‘flatten the curve’ without trampling over human rights. We hear from:
Bill Rees, population and human ecologist and professor emeritus and former director of the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning
Nandita Bajaj, executive director of Population Balance, and adjunct professor at Antioch University in New England
Céline Delacroix, Senior Fellow at the Population Institute and director of the FP/Earth project