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Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientists,

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in science, technology, and medicine with me Chris Smith and this week we are looking at population

or should that be overpopulation we've just passed the 8 billion mark and we're using two planets

worth of resources every year

allegedly so why is no one talking about this?

The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.ukdot UK. The last month we were told the 8 billionth person was added to Earth's human population

but despite many acknowledging that some of the biggest threats facing us and the

planet like climate change stem from our impact on the world and the more of us there are the

worst those threats are going to be.

The topic of population is mysteriously absent from the dialogue at major international

fora like the recent COP27 meeting in Egypt.

Surely living sustainably must include, as David Attimper puts it, not overrunning the planet

and destroying it in the process. So how many people can or indeed should the

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