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Letter: Two takes on talk of society's breakdown (2)

Published 15 January 2025

From Murray Upton, Canberra, Australia

It is wrong to claim that Calhoun’s forecast of social breakdown in an increasingly crowded world “hasn’t (for the most part) materialised”. It seems to me that Earth’s population is indeed in the middle of its “behavioural sink” and unfortunately appears likely to destroy itself.

Issue no. 3526 published 18 January 2025

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