Chapter 6
1. Joel E. Cohen in State of the Planet, November 14 - December 5, 2003.
2. There are different views on the subject and are well summarised in Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs and Steel, Norton, 1998 and David S. Landes in Wealth and Poverty of Nations, Norton, 1999.
3. The Population Division of the UN in their revision of 2002 presents a lower figure of the world population in the year 2050. Their estimate is now 8.9 billion against 9.3 billion estimated in 2000. www.unpopulation.org
4. Ibid.
5. UN Population Division, revision 2002.
6. In revising the population of the world in 2050 the UN Population Division has, however, attached considerable importance to the effects of AIDS in developing countries where population growth largely ...
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