In 1968, biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich, a married couple, Population explosionfrightening prospects of ecological disaster to come. Population growth must be slowed or reversed, or catastrophe will follow, they say.
Since then, the world’s population has more than doubled to more than 8 billion people and disaster still looms, but now a new factor has been added, never seen before in the entire history of life on Earth.
Italy’s population has fallen by about 1 million since 2014. Japan’s population has fallen by about 5 million.
