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Fossil fascism used to demonize migrants

Ecofascists have a long history of supporting the environment when it empowers racist policy

Salon

It won’t cost much to make free school meals a universal right

A new push to offer free school meals across the globe won’t end world hunger but it’s a very good start

The Guardian - UK

Darwin must stay in Indian school textbooks

If the strength of science lies in its ability to stand the test of critical inquiry, then science classrooms must inculcate the embracing of critique

The Hindu

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The worldwide population boon

An easy way to start a long, heated debate is to mention global population. Thomas Malthus famously ignited furious arguments in the 19th century when he warned that, absent fertility-control policies, exponential population growth would outpace improvements in agriculture and cause recurrent bouts of famine and pestilence. Industrialisation would postpone…

Bangkok Post

Rousseau, Malthus, and Thanos Were Wrong

The authors of Superabundance make a strong case that more people and industrialization mean a richer, more prosperous world.

Reason

Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley: More People Means More Wealth

The Superabundance authors make a compelling case that the world is getting richer for everyone.

Reason

Thanos Was Wrong: More People Means More Wealth

Superabundance explains why a world of 8 billion people is infinitely richer than one with 1 billion.

Reason

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How evolution pushed human poulation to eight billion

Humans are not especially fast, strong or agile

Wales Online

Global population hits 8 billion, but per-capita consumption is still the main problem

The world population has just hit a new record: 8 billion. As is often the case, there are heated debates about the planet’s so-called “carrying capacity” – the total number of people who can live on Earth sustainably. Experts are generally divided into two camps. There are those who argue…

The Conversation

8 billion people: how evolution made it happen

November 15 2022 marks a milestone for our species, as the global population hits 8 billion. Just 70 years ago, within a human lifetime, there were only 2.5 billion of us. In AD1, fewer than one-third of a billion. So how have we been so successful?

The Conversation

'Too many people, not enough food' isn't the cause of hunger and food insecurity

Nearly one in three people in the world did not have access to enough food in 2020. That’s an increase of almost 320 million people in one year and it’s expected to get worse with rising food prices and the war trapping wheat, barley and corn in Ukraine and Russia.

The Conversation

Sir Tony Wrigley obituary

Economic and demographic historian who transformed the view of the industrial revolution

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