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Norman Myers, Ph.D, CMG for services to the global environment

Distinguished British environmentalist and expert on population pressures

Visiting Fellow, Oxford University’s Green College

Visiting Professor, Oxford University’s Centre for Environment, University of Vermont, and University of Cape Town

Adjunct Professor, Duke University

 Title of Lecture: “Time of Breakdown or Breakthrough?”

Date: May 2011

ABSTRACT OF LECTURE

Ask people about the world's foremost problems, and they will cite climate change, widespread pollution, energy shortages, water deficits, and so on. They are unlikely to utter a word about population. The issue seems to have slipped off everyone's radar screen. Yet the US population, for instance, is now rising faster than at any time since the baby-boom years of the mid-20th century. No wonder three out of four Americans believe their country is already overcrowded. Population has become the Great Unmentionable, even though population growth is implicated, directly or indirectly, in virtually all our problems. Dr. Joel E. Cohen, The Rockefeller University Laboratory of Populations, said: “In the population arena we need to create a bigger pie, with fewer forks and better manners.” This lecture looked at how to do that.