ConCERNed Workshop "Breaking the Taboo: the population overshoot problem"

Monday 22 Feb 2010, 17:45 → 21:45 Europe/Zurich

Salle B (CERN)

Michael Dittmar (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))

Poster breakingthetaboo.pdf

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEi01NO6bzE&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTWduFB_RX0&feature=player_embedded#

Defining the Problem

1 Introduction(s) and some definitions

Speaker: Michael Dittmar (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))

Slides populationintro.pdf

2 World population dynamics: 6 billions of us and still growing

Speaker: Michael Dittmar (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))

Slides populationdynamics.pdf

3 Feeding a growing world population with food and water?

Speaker: Dr Francesco Spano (Columbia University (New York))

Slides spanoFoodAndWaterForConCERNed.pdf

4 The human impact problem: the IPAT equation

Speaker: Helmut Lubbers (ecology discovery foundation (www.ecoglobe.org))

Slides i=pat-0222.pdf i=pat-0222.ppt

19:30 Dinner discussion break

Can Humanity Reach Sustainability?

5 Overshoot and Collapse, learning from history?

Speaker: Mark Cooke (Unknown)

Slides collapse.pdf

6 Discussion

Too many people or too many poor people? Is Europe in overshoot? Form unsustainable world into collapse? Reaching sustainability under "Peak Oil", "Peak Energy " and "Climate Change"?

Speaker: All