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THERE has been some discussion in these pages about population and growth.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) tells us that the current crisis is not only a pandemic, but also that increasing human population is to blame for it.
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The WHO relies on research that concludes that population growth causes "habitat fragmentation and disease spillover into human populations ... [There is] an increase in diversity of disease-causing microbes, increasing the probability that any one of these microbes may spill over into human populations, leading to outbreaks".
