Global population growth is now slowing rapidly. Will a falling population be better for the environment?
- Written by Andrew Taylor, Associate Professor in Demography, Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University
Nature moved in when people left the fishing village of Houtouwan in Zhejiang, ChinaJoe Nafis/ShutterstockRight now, human population growth is doing something long thought impossible – it’s wavering. It’s now possible global population could peak much earlier than expected, topping 10 billion in the 2060s. Then, it would...





