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How to balance the population needs on our planet

How to balance the population needs on our planet

Update: 2025-07-24
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We face multiple looming demographic crises — and our responses seemingly contradict each other. 

A rapidly aging population means that we need more children to be born. But it's foreseeable that resources on Earth simply can't sustain many more people.

How can we solve this conundrum?

Original broadcast on May 22, 2022

Guests

Dr Stuart Gietel Basten — Professor of Social Science and Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Dr Marco Amati — Associate professor of International Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University

Deborah Devis — Science Communicator

Dr Anumitra Mirti — Senior Associate — Sustainability, Beca

Professor Nick Parr — Demographer, Macquarie University

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How to balance the population needs on our planet

How to balance the population needs on our planet

Australian Broadcasting Corporation