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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.

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Globalization - the beginning of the end

There’s a kind of hush where once the praises of corporate globalization sounded most loudly. An Unholy Trinity – the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization – sulks in its sanctuary, chanting an orthodoxy that no longer exists. Praying for business as usual in the corridors of power will never restore the myth of a selfcorrecting free market. High finance, the biggest of the winners from corporate globalization, over-inflated this false belief and then blew itself to bits, as if by accident. So in the next issue, the New Internationalist asks what remains and who’s left to clear up the mess. As national ‘taxpayers’ – that’s the rest of us, citizens – find themselves footing the bill into the indefinite future, the time has surely come to make way for more just and democratic systems – and a new internationalism. Fresh signs of life now spring most vigorously from a growing awareness that the Earth is not a toy boardroom globe but an endangered habitat that lives or dies by its intricate diversity, in a shared climate that’s changing beyond all recognition.

• Deglobalization The most consistently perceptive critic of globalization – Walden Bello – explains an idea he first had a decade ago, and how it now plays out at home in the Philippines, where he’s an elected member of Congress.
• Democratic destinations Where you end up rather depends on where you want to go – Egypt and Latin America compared.
• Transition times The sooner we get started the more likely we are to enjoy a post-carbon world – the Transition Towns movement.
• Fancy finance – a brief history How Crisis came home to roost.
• The market that failed Seeing sense from the South.

COMING SOON: TAR SANDS • IRAQ - SEVEN YEARS ON