Does OR have a role in global population growth strategy?

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Frances O’Brien, Bryan Edwards and John Morecroft for their support and objectivity during the discussions that contributed to this Viewpoint.

Notes

1 The American billion, 1 × 10⁹, a British milliard, is used throughout.

2 I would not have dared to parody the technology lobby so absurdly, had this view not been expressed, in almost exactly these terms, by a speaker for a UK ‘think tank’ in a climate change debate on BBC Radio 4 in 2007.