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Website Search Streaming Video Video Playlists Includes Feature Films, Kistler Prize Acceptance Speeches, Interviews, Lectures, and Scholar Visions of the Long-term Future Recent Publications “Global Transitions and Asia 2060” Executive Summary [2.7 MB PDF] “Water – The Crisis Ahead” Executive Summary [2.1 MB PDF] Winter 2010 Newsletter [1.1 MB PDF] All Foundation publications are available for download from our Publications page. RECENT Events “Global Population and the Planetary Future – 2011” • Humanity 3000 Workshop • October 2011 Walter P. Kistler Book Award • Dr. Laurence C. Smith • October 2011 12th Annual Kistler Prize • Dr. Charles A. Murray • September 2011 Norman Myers Lecture • Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series • May 2011 “Global Transitions and Asia 2060” Workshop • Taipei, Taiwan • November 2010 Peter Ward Lecture • Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series • October 2010 “Managing the Future” • Talk by Sesh Velamoor • July 2010	Programs Humanity 3000 HOME \| SEMINARS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 \| SYMPOSIA 1 2 \| WORKSHOPS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Workshop 8 “Global Population and the Planetary Future – 2100” Humanity 3000 Workshop • October 2011 World population is on course to reach 9 billion by 2044, from today's 7 billion. China's long-held position as the world's most populous country will likely be surpassed by 2030 by India, which is adding 17.5 million to 20 million humans annually. At the same time, declines in citizen populations of many advanced economies, including the USA, are being offset by legal and illegal immigration so that their net populations are increasing. Still other long-established nation-states are providing incentives to procreate because they are seeing net declines. These significant changes lie at the root of an emerging complexity encompassing issues of sustainability, climate change, clashes between cultures, and many more factors that need to be properly understood. The purpose of the workshop “Global Population and the Planetary Future – 2100” was to focus attention on these issues and gain understanding of the complexity, impacts, and possible attenuations. Ten participants, representing perspectives from the USA, Australia, Russia, India, England, and South Africa, convened for the two-day workshop. An Executive Summary of the discussions and conclusions of the workshop participants will be published by Foundation For the Future in January 2012. Copyright © 1996–2011 Foundation For the Future. All rights reserved.