Sustainable Population and Economy for Human Well-being (Video)

[Gregorian]

http://new.livestream.com/UniversityofTasmania/events/3505616

A very good basic overview of where we are, how we got here, where we should go.


Presented by Paul Ehrlich and Dick Smith. Overpopulation and our growth-based economic system pose a serious threat to human well-being in many ways, and may be moving civilization towards collapse. Paul Ehrlich will show how further world population growth will be a major factor in spreading death and misery through increasing climate disruption, polluting the planet, impacting – and possibly destroying – human life-support systems, and increasing the risks of vast Ebola-type epidemics and wars (possibly nuclear) over declining resources. Dick Smith will argue that the hope for ever-growing economies in a finite world is a myth and that we cannot continue to accelerate our use of resources and energy without dire consequences.