Ruth Gledhill Weblog: ABC - billions face death

The one thing we can all be certain about, atheists and believers alike, is that we will all die. So I suppose for the Archbishop of Canterbury to posit in an interview with the BBC today that without a "real change in attitude", billions of people will die, is technically accurate. The total world population is presently about 6.5 billion. This makes his warning pretty apocalyptic. But the point is whether what he is saying can be argued to be true or not. And even if is justifiably argued that his forecast represents something of a sensationalist exaggeration, this should not be allowed to detract from the rest of his comments.

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