This, some predict, will eventually lead to a more relaxed policy towards population-control, even in the big cities.
The Catholic church campaigned ceaselessly against population-control programmes, though not primarily for the sake of the women they hurt.
Both these institutions have backed strict population-control measures in the Philippines so that the nation can meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goals.
But while there are many who would agree we live on a crowded isle, population control comes at a cost - social and economic.
The agency cited another study, a 2007 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention population-based report, that estimated acetaminophen was the likely cause of most of the estimated 1, 600 acute liver failures each year.
In 1980 he made a wager with a well-known environmentalist and population control advocate, Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich.
The UN has recently, and not before time, decided that population control should be one of its much-vaunted Millennium Development Goals.
The right response to that, though, would be to curb pollution and try to alter the pattern of growth to make it less resource-intensive, rather than to control population directly.
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Greenland, a territory of Denmark with a predominantly Inuit population, assumed self-rule in 2009, giving it control of its resources.
With a state takeover of Detroit, nearly half of the state's African-American population will live in a city under state control.
Tories were "very much like the rest of the population - decent, tolerant, humane but desperately concerned to see the criminals brought under control, to see decent citizens back in charge of our neighbourhoods, " Mr Letwin told BBC One's Breakfast with Frost programme.
Daniel Girard, one of the lawyers for the Chinese-American pupils, said the settlement gave the control of schools back to the population of San Francisco.
Perhaps the biggest and currently the scratchiest division is between Arabs and Kurds, who control most of the east and north of Nineveh, and account for about one-third of its population.
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