Letter: Plentiful views on the great population debate 97)

From David Richardson, London, UK

You point out that many nations will soon have falling populations. Let us rejoice in this.

For the record – {06 December 2020}

• In our population feature, the source of the cholera outbreak in Soho, London, in 1854 was the contaminated water from a communal pump, not the pump handle itself.