Population
Dan O’Brien: Mass migration is one of the great challenges of population growth
The UN expects the collective population of Africa and the Middle East to double by 2060, leading to an increasing exodus to Europe – but a recession could see the population dynamics change in Ireland
The planet’s population will hit eight billion in the coming days. It was just a dozen years ago that the seven billion threshold was passed. In the 100 years since 1922, the number of people alive has more than quadrupled.
There are now ten times more people alive than Thomas Malthus, one of the earliest writers on population change, believed the Earth could possibly sustain. He made that prediction at the end of 18th century ...