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World Service,06 Jan 1994,13 mins

Population Growth

Global Concerns

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A discussion on China's one child policy and the country's eugenics law (later renamed the 1995 Maternal and Infant Health Law). Also on the programme: the dangers transgenic plants may pose with Margaret Mellon and; how deforestation and the human act of moving water between land and sea is contributing to rising sea levels.

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