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DrumBeat: May 8, 2008

Posted on May 08, 2008

Confronting the inevitable: Population reduction, voluntary and otherwiseEditor's note: One can run into a good report on a critical subject, only to find the author has a deficit of understanding on peak oil, for example. Or one may encounter the delusion that population growth is a problem basically in Third World countries. Not with this new essay for Culture Change. Professor Ken Smail has put together the best argument for facing depopulation.Its full title was Acknowledging and Confronting the Inevitable: A Significant Shrinkage in Global Human Numbers, and Other Inconvenient Truths. S...

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