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Earth population ‘exceeds limits’

The Most populous nations are
:China - 1.33bn, India - 1.16bn, USA - 306m, Indonesia - 230m Brazil - 191m. And Current world Population according to US Census Bureau is 6.8bn. Net growth per day - 218,030 and forecast made for 2040 - 9bn.

Dr Fedoroff has been the science and technology advisor to the US secretary of state since 2007, initially working with Condoleezza Rice and now in new Obama administration, she now advises Hillary Clinton said:

“We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can’t support many more people,” Dr Fedoroff said, stressing the need for humans to become much better at managing “wild lands”, and in particular water supplies.

Pressed on whether she thought the world population was simply too high, Dr Fedoroff replied: “There are probably already too many people on the planet.”

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

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