Why a more populous world will need different rules of governance

The western obsession with individual freedoms, which has been globalised after 1945, may need to give way to a more realistic approach wherein groups become the units of governance

In a post on its website, the UN told the world a few days ago, "On 15 November 2022, the world's population is projected to reach 8 billion people, a milestone in human development." It omitted to mention that in 1900 it was just 1 billion.

In other words, we have added 7 billion people in 122 years. Had this explosive growth happened in any other species, nature, as it always does, would have taken remedial action. But we have gone the other way.

Thus, the UN added that this was "unprecedented growth". It attributed it to "the gradual increase