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Agence France-Presse: Already straining to host seven billion souls, Earth is set to teem with billions more, and only a revolution in the use of resources can avert an environmental crunch, experts say.
As early as 1798, Thomas Malthus gloomily forecast that our ability to reproduce would quickly outstrip our ability to produce food, leading to mass starvation and a culling of the species.
But an industrial revolution and its impact on agriculture proved Malthus and later doomsayers wrong, even as our numbers doubled......
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Crowded Earth: How many is too many?
Posted by Agence France-Presse: Marlowe Hood and Richard Ingham on October 23rd, 2011
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