Please Explain: How to Save the World--Population Growth and Control

Please Explain: How to Save the World--Population Growth and Control

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In Please Explain, we set aside time every Friday afternoon to get to the bottom of one complex issue. We’ll back up and review the basic facts and principles of complicated issues across a broad range of topics — history, politics, science, you name i...

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vor 14 Jahren
This week's Please Explains is the second in our series on how to save the world--ways to approach complex global problems such as climate chande, food supply, garbage disposal, the global water supply, and violence. Today we're looking at the population explosion--there are now 7 billion people on the planet. We're joined by Hania Zlotnik, director of the population Division at the Department of Economics and Social Affairs at the United Nations, and Dr.Joel E. Cohen, mathematical biologist and the head of the Laboratory of Populations at Rockefeller University and Columbia University, and author of How Many People Can the Earth Support?
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