Last week at St Mary's Loch in the Southern Uplands, I met John Starbuck who told me that he had been the first to climb the highest mountain in the Arctic - in Greenland.
As we talked, he mentioned that Linda and I, rather than it being a case of population replacement with our two children, that it was actually a case of population quadrupling from two to eight people, viz: Linda, Tim, Becky, Jonathan, Gwennan, Jemima, Joss and the new baby in October.
Is this a graphic, surprising but correct way to look at population growth?
