The earth faces a future of rising populations and growing strains on the planet . Whatever else the future holds, significant population increase is inevitable and the current UN forecast of 9 .2 billion by 2050 – itself a 40 per cent increase on the 6 .7 billion in 2007 – may turn out to be an underestimate . The environmental damage resulting from population increase is already widesprea…
The earth faces a future of rising populations and growing strains on the planet . Whatever else the future holds, significant population increase is inevitable and the current UN forecast of 9 .2 billion by 2050 – itself a 40 per cent increase on the 6 .7 billion in 2007 – may turn out to be an underestimate . The environmental damage resulting from population increase is already widesprea…