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Are 7 Billion People Too Many?

—By Julia Whitty

| Mon Oct. 31, 2011 3:00 AM PDT

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Julia Whitty

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Julia Whitty is the environmental correspondent for Mother Jones. Her latest book is Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean. For more of her stories, click here. RSS | Twitter

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