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UN data on pop growth bad news for climate
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The demographers may have got it wrong. New projections say the population of the planet will not stabilize at 9 billion sometime this century. In fact, there is an 80 percent likelihood that, by 2100, it will reach at least 9.6 billion − and maybe rise as high as 12.3 billion. Science, has profound and alarming implications for political stability, food security and, of course, climate change, since greater numbers of people mean greater demands on agricultural land, water and fuel. At the...
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