Issue No. 429
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Below is the contents index for this months issue.
Too many people?
Vanessa Baird wonders why the demographers aren’t panicking.
Blame the coffee
Why tiny Timor Leste is undergoing a baby boom.
Ageing - 7 myths
The average age of the population is increasing – people are living longer. Also, women are having fewer children. But is this greying of nations really a ‘crisis’?
A brief history of population
Includes a murky past.
Sex action
How ‘abstinence’ is pushing up the abortion rate.
When sperm didn't meet ovum
China and Iran: two ways to do family planning.
Frontline Bangladesh
The climate refugees of tomorrow.
Population and climate change
Jonathon Porritt and the Corner House offer two very different perspectives on one of the big debates of the day.
The missing pieces
Is hell really other people? Vanessa Baird concludes with some sobering facts and reflections on equality.
SPECIAL FEATURE - Blood on the summit floor
As the Copenhagen climate talks went into meltdown, Jess Worth was there to witness the carnage first hand.
SPECIAL FEATURE - Brothers in peace
Israeli Rami Elhanan and Palestinian Bassam Aramin forged an unlikely friendship through a terrible tragedy. They share their story.
News, views, & voices
Letter from...
Letter from Cairo
by Maria Golia
Southern Exposure
Photography from the South
Making Waves
Making social justice ripples in 2010
Mixed Media
Film, Books & Music reviews
Big Bad World
Illustration by Polyp
Currents
Current news and views from around the world
NI Essay
Photo-journalist Dean Saffron documents life in a South African squatter camp.
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