The evening’s speakers included Russell Hopfenberg and Jack Alpert.
Russell (Russ) Hopfenberg, adjunct Duke professor and author of two peer-reviewed papers about human population and food supply, presented a summary and a synthesis of his papers. Carrying capacity is often viewed as a limit to a population. It also “acts like a magnet”, he notes, […]
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Summary of the 2006 Chapel Hill Earth Day Population Summit
September 5, 2006 – 4:19 pm
Time to recognize resources limited
August 13, 2006 – 4:01 pm
(This letter was published in the Chapel Hill News, 13 August 2006)
Thanks to the teachings of science, our children regularly report to us that Earth is round and finite in space-time. Easy enough.
Then, why is it that grown-ups with responsibilities for ensuring a good future for the young deny one of these facts?
Summary of the 2005 Chapel Hill Earth Day Population Summit
May 5, 2005 – 4:17 pm
Company Carolina, a student theatre group from the University of North Carolina, presented a dramatic reading of Ishmael.
Summary of the 2004 Chapel Hill Earth Day Population Summit
May 5, 2004 – 4:15 pm
Speakers included Jason Bradford, from UC Davis and Washington University; Alan Thornhill, Director of the Society for Conservation Biology; and Russell Hopfenberg, Duke University.
Russell (Russ) Hopfenberg
Jason Bradford
Alan Thornhill
Summary of the 2003 Chapel Hill Earth Day Population Summit
April 23, 2003 – 4:15 pm
Raoul Weiler, Club of Rome
Alan Thornhill, Director of the Society for Conservation Biology
Russell (Russ) Hopfenberg
