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Clinton Adviser Fears Population Crunch

Speaking on a BBC radio talk show, an adviser to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that there are “probably already too many people on the planet” than the Earth’s ecosystem can sustain.

Dr. Nina Federoff, an adviser to Clinton as well as her predecessor, Condoleeza Rice, said that with a population of almost seven billion, humans will need to better manage water and “wild lands.”

She also said genetically modified agriculture would be required to sustain large populations.

–Brittany Owens/Newsdesk.org

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“Earth population ‘exceeds limits’”
BBC News/March 31, 2009