21 June 2005

Cities growing means world population may shrink

Apparently the general trend is for urban birth rate to drop below replacement rate of 2.1 . Since migration into the world's cities is currently about a million a week this could mean the global population could start to fall in the middle of this century...
It's all downhill from ... 2050 | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist Magazine

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Christian England? Maybe not...

I've just read an interesting blog article from Paul Kingsnorth . I've responded to it elsewhere with regard to its consideration of...