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Why declining population is a worrying global challenge

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Professor Wangari Maathai once made a powerful but prophetic declaration about nature. “Mother Nature is very generous but very unforgiving. If you destroy Nature, Nature will destroy you,” said the late Nobel laureate.

Whereas Prof Maathai was talking about the destruction of forests, that truth applies to every aspect of the natural order of life – you interfere with it, and it turns on you with vengeance.

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