Foreign Policy: Without Birth Control, Planet Doomed
Malcolm Potts and Martha Campbell, Foreign Policy
11 May 2011 -
Publisher: NPR
This week, the United Nations Population Division made a radical shift in its population projections. Previously, the organization had estimated that the number of people living on the planet would reach around 9 billion by 2050 — and then level off. Now everything has changed: Rather than leveling off, the population size will continue to grow, reaching 10 billion or more at century's end …