Many fear an unsustainable explosion in global population, but in fact the population bomb is being defused round the world by women making new choices about their own lives. By mid-century the world’s population could be falling. Fred Pearce, is an international speaker, journalist and author on environmental issues, and was recently described as ‘one of Britain’s finest scientific writers’. He will explore our emerging new demography, a world of massive migration and rapid ageing, where some societies may face extinction through having too few babies, not too many. What does this mean for our environment – for our species? Fred is currently Environmental Consultant to the New Scientist, and his recent book ‘Peoplequake Mass Migration, Ageing Nations and the Coming Population Crash’ was published this year.
2010 Cafes
- Bosnia-Hercegovina – the crumbling Balkan keystone
- Inequality and its Social Impact
- What price Democracy? The hidden forces behind the Honduran coup
- International assistance to countries at war – the Democratic Republic
- Immigration in the 21st century: facts and misconceptions
- The crisis in Somalia
- Torture, Lawyers and Accountability
- Scientists and policy making
- Stifling debate: libel laws and the price of free speech
- Peoplequake: population myths unravelled
- The US Militarisation of Latin America
- The Future of Yemen?
- Microfinance: high hopes and grim realities