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Including population control in climate policy risks human tragedy

16 August 2018

Making population issues part of the world's efforts to avert climate change could cause human rights abuses including forced sterilisation, says Ian Angus

The ethics issue: Should we impose population controls?

5 July 2017

Future generations risk inheriting an overcrowded, suffocating planet. Taking action may mean what was taboo is now common sense

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Including population control in climate policy risks human tragedy

The ethics issue: Should we impose population controls?

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