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Jug Suraiya

A former associate editor with the Times of India, Jug Suraiya writes two regular columns for the print edition, Jugular Vein, which appears every Friday, and Second Opinion,… MORE

Has Mother Earth borne too many children for her to support?
The world’s population has crossed eight billion. And though the population replacement rate – the number of children people have to replace themselves – has decreased in some parts of the world, it has remained static, or increased, in others, and by 2037 there will be more than 9 billion humans on an already overcrowded globe, exacting an increasing toll on dwindling natural resources, such as water and agricultural land.

In 1798 the English economist, Thomas Robert Malthus, propounded his famous –or infamous – Theory of Population, which stated…