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Lionel Shriver

Contraception is the answer to climate change

17 August 2019

9:00 AM

17 August 2019

9:00 AM

When last week’s IPCC report warned that the human race may soon have trouble feeding itself, my reaction was: duh. Having pooh-poohed the 1960s ‘population bomb’ alarmism that would have us all balancing on our allotted five square inches of Earth by now, we’ve grown complacent about increasing our 7.7

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