Times Talk Topics:Sustainability: Supporting a Population of 7 Billion

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Sustainability Model

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Selective readings

Cohen, Joel E.  (2011).  7 billion.  New York Times, October 24,  23.

 

George, Alison.  (2009) 7 billion and counting.  New Scientist, 203 (Sept 26, 2009), 34-35.

 

Kolbert, Elizabeth.  (2011).  Billions and billions.  New Yorker, 87 (33), 21-22.

 

Kunzig, Robert.  (2011). There will soon be seven billion people on the planet. By 2045 global population is projected to reach nine billion. Can the planet take the strain? National Geographic, 219(1), 42-48.

 

Lam, David.  (2011).  How the world survived the population bomb:  lessons from 50 years of extraordinary demographic history.  Report 11-743, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research .

 

Lee, Ronald.  (2011).  The outlook for population growth.  Science, 333 (6042) 569-573.  Available in print in Forsyth Library: Main Floor Periodicals Area, Q1.S35

 

Now we are seven billion. (2011).    Economist, 401 (8756), 18-20.

 

Pearce, Fred.  (2011).  When will the 7 billionth human be born? New Scientist, 212 (2834), 10.

 

Roberts, Sam  (2011).  U.N. says 7 billion now share the World.  New York Times, November 1, 4.

 

Tollefson, Jeff.  (2011).  Seven billion and counting.  Nature, 478 (7369) 300. Available in print in Forsyth Library, Main Floor Periodicals Area:  Q1.N2

 

Voser, Peter.  (2011).  9 billion reasons to address the world’s energy challenge now.  Vital Speeches of the Day, 77 (12) 423-425.

 

Wasserman, Pamela.  (2011).  Our world of 7 billion: population studies in today’s social studies classroom.  Social Education, (75) (5), 274-276.

Definitions

Sustainability definitions:

 

http://www.epa.gov/sustainability/basicinfo.htm

 

Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations.

Sustainability is important to making sure that we have and will continue to have, the water, materials, and resources to protect human health and our environment.

 

from Sustainable Measures

 

7 Billion: video from National Geographic