We must halt the explosion in population to offer decent life for all, says Sir David Attenborough

Daily Mail
"Sir David, 84, said the global population is over six billion and will hit nine billion in 30 years, but ‘there seems to be some bizarre taboo around the subject’. ...‘We now realise that the disasters that continue increasingly to afflict the natural world have one element that connects them all – the unprecedented increase in the number of human beings on the planet,' he added. ....The 84-year-old praised controversial 18th century demographer Thomas Malthus, who argued that populations increase until they are halted by 'misery and vice'. He added: ‘The population of the world is now growing by 80 million a year. One and a half million a week. A quarter of a million a day."