Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
"One-Child Nation" shows scars of Chinese policy
By  • 23 May 2019
Having a child renewed filmmaker Nanfu Wang's interest in China's one-child policy. In effect from 1979 to 2016, the restrictions on family size halted China's explosive population growth but have left the country with a…
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Fixing Africa's booming cities
By  • 2 May 2019
Back in 1950, Kenya’s largest city Nairobi was a sleepy colonial town of about 100,000. But as tens of thousands of people from the country began to move to the city, the Kenyan capital surged.…
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Debating overpopulation
By  • 25 January 2018
Overpopulation has been debated since British economist Thomas Malthus famously warned in 1798 that humans could reproduce far faster than they could increase their food supply. But since Malthus's time, world population has grown from…
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The overpopulation debate
By  • 19 October 2017
Overpopulation has been debated since British economist Thomas Malthus famously warned in 1798 that humans could reproduce far faster than they could increase their food supply. But since Malthus's time, world population has grown from…
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