HowMany.org welcomes Dr. Malcolm Potts and Dr. Martha Campbell of UC Berkeley's Bixby Center for Population, Health & Sustainability to speak 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.
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. Apart from teaching at U.C., both spend time each year conducting research in the developing world.
Drs. Potts and Campbell will engage the audience on what can be done to slow population growth. 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?
