In 1968, biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich, a married couple, Population explosion frightening prospects of ecological disaster to come. Population growth must be slowed or reversed, or catastrophe will follow, they say.
Since then, the world's population has more than doubled to more than 8 billion people and disaster still looms, but now a new factor has been added, never seen before in the entire history of life on Earth.
Italy's population Shrinking The number has decreased by about 1 million since 2014. Japan's population has decreased by about 500,000.
Source: www.newscientist.com
