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Uganda to Have Fastest Population Growth; Vatican Speaker: World Overpopulated; Amazon Deforestation Worsens
Sunday, July 5, 2015 15:08
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Uganda on Track to Have World’s Highest Population Growth. “No one would consider such a rate of growth to be sustainable.”
Speaker at Vatican Climate Change Rollout Said Earth Was Overpopulated at 6 Billion. At the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference, Schellnhuber said: “In a very cynical way, it’s a triumph for science because at last we have stabilized something – namely the estimates for the carrying capacity of the planet, namely below 1 billion people.”
Amazon Deforestation Takes a Turn for the Worse. Between 1990 and 2010 clearing of tropical forests had increased 62% worldwide, but in Brazil, such destruction plummeted from 2004 to 2011. But after 2011, deforestation has come back, according to a satellite analysis of the Amazon.
