• Question: How do we solve the population problem?

    Asked by to Daren, Lynne, Phillip, Simon on 18 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      anon answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      I watched this programme recently, it was really interesting. If you ever get a chance to see it I’d recommend it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/45/this-world-hans-rosling.html
      The guy presenting it is a statistician and he thinks that the population will naturally start to level off in a few years time because people are already having fewer children.
      I think the only thing we can do at the moment is educate people about things like contraception so that they are able to stop having children if that is their choice.

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      Lynne Thomas answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      I think that population is one of those things that goes up and down with time. Over long periods of time it probably sorts itself out and is driven largely by the availability of resources.

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