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Danny Dorling

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Human geographer Prof Danny Dorling explores what it might be like living alongside ten billion people.

The United Nations recently predicted that the world's population will grow to nine billion by 2050 and ten billion by the end of the century.

Whilst news of population growth is often greeted with panic and dismay Danny Doring, a human geographer at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment, argues that, in fact, there's nothing to fear in the future, because the population bomb has already diffused.

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Producer: Caitlin Smith.

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Wed 18 Sep 2013 20:45

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