Population – two views - preview
I was glad to see the special issue of The Friend (5 January) on the subject of climate change, but was disappointed that one aspect of the global crisis was not mentioned I refer to population While of course general greed and over-consumption are major causes of the situation, it is not helped by the fact of nearly a quarter of a million more mouths to feed every day This is about a billion every twelve years The often quoted UN medium projection for 2050 is 91 billion, but this can only be an approximation: the lowest projection is for 74bn, and the highest as much as 11bn, rising rapidly
Roger Plenty & Volker Heine
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