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China’s Population Falls!

Posted on 17th January 2023

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This report on the BBC gives me some hope that we might yet save our planet.

China's population fell by 850,000 from 2021 to 2022; the first fall in 60 years.

Many of the world's environmental problems are caused, directly or indirectly, by excessive population, and this has traditionally been driven mainly by two nations: China and India, both of whom are in the process of widespread industrialisation, which is increasing the environmental damage. The fact that China has now changed from population growth to population reduction is what gives me hope. What we now need is for India to do the same.