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As birth rates fall, animals prowl in our abandoned ghost villages Cal Flyn © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images For many years it seemed that overpopulation was the looming crisis of our age. Back in 1968, the Stanford biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich infamously predicted that millions would soon starve to death in their bestselling, doom-saying book The Population Bomb; since then, neo-Malthusian rumblings of imminent disaster have been a continu...

The head of the largest school board in Southwestern Ontario is advising parents “to be prepared just in case the government decides to extend school closures”…