
Are there too many people in the world? Are we going to run out of resources or pollute the natural environment past the point of no return? In my latest Québécois Libre article, "Overpopulation: Pictures vs. Numbers," I argue that although they may be evocative, photographs cannot answer these kinds of questions. To get a sense of the size of a problem, we need numbers, like the ones provided by Swedish professor of global health and renowned TED-Talk speaker Hans Rosling.