The time is right to push global learning beyond primary-school level, says Joel E. Cohen. The benefits could include a dramatically smaller increase in world population by 2050.
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Cohen, J. Make secondary education universal. Nature 456, 572–573 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/456572a
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