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EPISODE · Jul 24, 2025 · 29 MIN

How to balance the population needs on our planet

from Future Tense · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

We face multiple looming demographic crises — and our responses seemingly contradict each other. A rapidly aging population means that we need more children to be born. But it's foreseeable that resources on Earth simply can't sustain many more people.How can we solve this conundrum?Original broadcast on May 22, 2022GuestsDr Stuart Gietel Basten — Professor of Social Science and Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyDr Marco Amati — Associate professor of International Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT UniversityDeborah Devis — Science CommunicatorDr Anumitra Mirti — Senior Associate — Sustainability, BecaProfessor Nick Parr — Demographer, Macquarie University

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