Hindustan Times
An interesting sidelight to the Family Planning Summit in London last week was that it was held amidst a double-dip recession. This was symbolic because a recession of course means a slump in demand and consumption. And that neatly links up to a view that I heard from some key delegates – that the rate of population growth in developing countries must be ’stabilised’ because it is adding to carbon emissions and climate change. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Dipankar De Sarkar on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 10:56 pm
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