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Analysing humanity’s special curse
It was only a matter of time before someone wrote a book about the word Donald Trump has helped to put on everyone’s lips
20 November 2022 - 00:00
On November 15, the United Nations announced that a baby had been born who brought the world’s population to 8-billion. There are many unanswered questions here. We’ve been told the baby’s name is Damian (like the devil child in David Seltzer’s 1976 novel The Omen) and that he has a T-shirt memorialising his heralding of a milestone in global population growth...
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