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How do we feed a global population heading towards ten billion? Stephen Sackur interviews writer and environmental activist George Monbiot, who has spent decades addressing this question.
- Programme: HARDtalk
- Episode: George Monbiot - Environmental campaigner and writer
- Channel: BBC World News
- Broadcast year: 2022
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