The issue of human overpopulation has fallen out of favour among most contemporary demographers, economists, and epidemiologists. Discussing population control has become a taboo topic. The silence around…
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Welcome to the State of the Future series. This series addresses 15 global challenges posed by the Millennium Project, an international non-profit think-tank collecting responses for 40 nodes worldwide…
Elephants in the room, part two For all our schemes and mantras about making our lives environmentally “sustainable”, humanity’s assault on the planet not only continues but expands. What are the deep…
In that world of peripheral vision, essential for business, social and political leaders, it is surprising that the World Economic Forum’s report, Global Risks 2012 has not received greater publicity or…
Elephants in the room, part one For all our schemes and mantras about making this or that part of our lives environmentally “sustainable”, humanity’s assault on the planet not only continues but expands…
The United Nations has set Halloween as the day when homosapiens are estimated to reach seven billion, up from six billion in 1999 and five billion in 1987. Two centuries ago there were one billion people…
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Director of the Complex Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Newcastle
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President, Center for Conservation Biology, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University
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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Honorary Professor, Australian National University
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Research scientist, CSIRO
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PhD Researcher, Keele University
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Honorary Professor, Industrial Relations Research Centre, UNSW
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Professor, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton
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PhD Researcher, Institute for Ethics and Transdisciplinary Stustainability Research (IETSR), Leuphana University
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Social scientist, CSIRO
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Researcher in Conservation Decision Science and Land Use, University of Oxford