UNESCO scientist says climate change "overshadowed by population growth"
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
John Feeney in Climate change, Population

It seems we may now have another influential scientific voice speaking out on the urgency of the problem of population. Bravo to Shahbaz Khan!

From the article:

Global population growth is looming as a bigger threat to the world's food production and water supplies than climate change, a leading scientist says.

Speaking at a CSIRO public lecture in Canberra yesterday, UNESCO's chief of sustainable water resources development, Professor Shahbaz Khan, said overpopulation's impacts were potentially more economically, socially and environmentally destructive than those of climate change.

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