The World Population Explosion: Coping With A World of 7 Billion

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Date:
August 15, 2013
Time:
7:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Venue:
The Watermill Center

Over the past century human numbers have quadrupled, and we are on course for an increase in world population of many more—perhaps many billions more—in the generations ahead. How has all this come to pass? Must this end in disaster? Or can human beings cope with the consequences of their growing demands upon our finite planet? In this presentation, Nicholas Eberstadt, a noted authority on demographics and development, will make a case for cautious optimism about our human future, all the huge planetary problems we commonly face notwithstanding.

About the Speaker
Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC and is also a Senior Adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research in Seattle WA. For ever three decades he has written extensively on issues of demography, development, and international security. He is author or editor of over 20 books or monographs, the most recent being “Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea During The Cold War Era” (2009), “Russia’s Peacetime Demographic Crisis” (2010) and “A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic” (2012). In 2012, he was awarded the prestigious Bradley Prize. Mr. Eberstadt earned his AB, MPA and Ph.D. from Harvard and his M.Sc. from the London School of Economics.

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