Hay festival 2010: Overpopulation fears nonsense, says author Fred Pearce
Global fertility patterns suggest population crash more likely than the much-anticipated explosion, claims environmental writer
Sir David Attenborough, Jonathon Porritt, Jeremy Irons and other "doomsters" are talking "dangerous nonsense" about the threat of overpopulation, according to the environmental writer Fred Pearce.
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Wednesday, 2 June, 2010
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