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Big problems, big decisions

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Sustainable solutions to worldwide crises such as overpopulation and climate change need regulating by global bodies, but whose views should these organizations represent?

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  1. Michael Sargent is a developmental biologist at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK. He is author of Biomedicine and the Human Condition: Challenges, Risks and Rewards.,

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