WS MoreOrLess: Population explosion?
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2013
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
"We just shut our eyes to the fact that the world's population is increasing out of control." Is broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough right about global population projections? And Tim Harford wonders whether it's true that Scotland is home to 20% of the world's redheads. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use go to |
| 0:08.0 | BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts. |
| 0:12.0 | This is the short edition of More or Less. |
| 0:16.0 | First broadcast on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and welcome to More or Less on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:23.0 | The program which investigates the numbers in the news and in life. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Tim Halford. |
| 0:29.0 | This week we dare to fact check none other than the broadcaster and naturalist |
| 0:35.0 | Sir David Attenborough. |
| 0:37.0 | Yes, no one is safe from the firm FWACC of our slide rule. |
| 0:41.0 | This fellow has been feeling it too. |
| 0:43.0 | I am very sorry, I'm very sorry. |
| 0:46.0 | But more of that later. |
| 0:48.0 | First, Sir David. |
| 0:50.0 | We just shut our eyes to the fact that the world population is increasing our control. |
| 0:56.0 | I mean since I first started making programs 60 years ago, |
| 1:00.0 | the human population has tripled and we don't look at this fact in the face. |
| 1:05.0 | There is a serious problem ahead of us. |
| 1:09.0 | Sir David Attenborough being interviewed on BBC Radio recently. |
| 1:13.0 | But something worries me about that. |
| 1:15.0 | It seems to conflict with something broadcast elsewhere on the BBC by a slightly less renowned voice. |
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