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Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.

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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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You'll discover in countries where women have control over their own bodies, where they have education, where they have birth control, where they have facilities and where they are literate, when those things happen, the birth rate falls.
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
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I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
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