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Understanding Population Growth: How Slowing Growth Leads to Prosperity

Thursday, February 09, 2012
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

HowMany.org welcomes Dr. Malcolm Potts and Dr. Martha Campbell of UC Berkeley's Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability to its Speaker Series stage. Drs. Potts and Campbell will engage the audience on the topic of "How to help people understand how to slow population growth." This is central to ameliorating global issues of economic hardship, threats to basic reproductive health care and fragile ecosystems disappearing at record rates - as well as local issues of carbon emissions and possible resource shortages. Apart from teaching at U.C., both spend time each year conducting research in the developing world.

HowMany.org is pleased to welcome speakers Malcolm Potts and Martha Campbell of UC Berkeley's Bixby Center for Population, Health & Sustainability. Dr. Potts is a Cambridge trained obstetrician and reproductive scientist, and Bixby professor at the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. Dr. Campbell, also lecturer in global health at UC Berkeley, is a political scientist, health policy specialist and president of Berkeley-based Venture Strategies for Health and Development. Both Dr. Potts and Dr. Campbell spend time each year conducting field research in the developing world.

Drs. Potts and Campbell will engage the audience on what can be done to slow population growth as we confront global issues of economic hardship, threats to basic reproductive health care and fragile ecosystems disappearing at record rates. While there are many numbers and arguments for the Earth's maximum sustainable human population, they all hinge on the question: In what manner shall the Earth's species live? 

Event Type(s): lectures

Cost: Free

Location:
Unitarian Fellowship Hall, 1924 Cedar St.
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Event Contact:
Searle Whitney
outreach@howmany.org
510-848-9061
http://www.howmany.org/

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