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Do we have a population problem?

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A rag picker woman collects plastic to recycle from a garbage dump in Siliguri, India
Is it the people or their consumption that is the problem?

Leading scientists and writers from Oxford and beyond examine if the scale of the human population is the main cause of our ecological problems.

Featuring: Colin Tudge (Oxford writer), Professor David Coleman (Professor of Demography at Oxford University) , John Ingram (Executive Officer: Global Environmental Change and Food), Professor Tim Dyson (Professor of Population Studies at LSE), Dr. George W Leeson (Deputy Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford), Fred Pearce (Environmental journalist).

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