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Byline: Michael Meyer (With Stefan Theil in Berlin, Eric Pape and Tracy McNicoll in Paris, Kay Itoi in Tokyo, Sarah Schafer in Beijing, Owen Matthews in Istanbul and bureau reports)
Everyone knows there are too many people in the world. Whether we live in Lahore or Los Angeles, Shanghai or So Paulo, our lives are daily proof. We endure traffic gridlock, urban sprawl and environmental depredation. The evening news brings variations on Ramallah or Darfur--images of Third World famine, poverty, pestilence, war, global competition for jobs and increasingly scarce natural resources.
Just last week the United Nations warned that many of the world's cities are ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Birth Dearth; Remember the population bomb? The new threat to the...