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Forwarded from Stewart Brand from the Long Foundation:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Birthrates are plummeting
worldwide. Already half the world has "sub-replacement"
birthrates. The dearth of babies coming means the makeup of human
populations is about to change drastically, and that will affect
everything. Radical population increase defined the 20th century;
radical population decrease could well define our current century.
This form of decrease---losing the young and keeping the old--- is
something humanity has never experienced before.<br><br>
<b>"The Depopulation Problem," Phillip Longman, Friday, August
13, 7pm, Fort Mason Conference Center</b>, San Francisco.
Doors open for coffee and books at 7pm; lecture is promptly at 8pm.
Special showing of<b> Robert Frank's 1969 film "Liferaft Earth"
at 7:15pm</b>. You may want to come early to be sure of a
seat. Admission is<b> free</b> (donation of $10 very welcome, not
required).<br><br>
Phillip Longman, author of the excellent new book, THE EMPTY CRADLE, is a
senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC. His
book will be on sale at the talk.<br><br>
"Demography is destiny," as they say. Every single
20-year-old of 2023 is already born---as is, where is. We were the
first humans to experience a global doubling of population in a single
lifetime, and now we learn it was the last doubling. It turned out
to be urbanization that stopped exponential population growth (half the
world now lives in cities). So far we have no idea what will stop
exponential population decrease.<br><br>
This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking,
given every second Friday at Fort Mason, organized by The Long Now
Foundation. Future speakers in the series include Danny Hillis,
Paul Hawken, Michael West, Ken Dychtwald, Laurie Anderson, and Jared
Diamond. If you would like to be notified by email of forthcoming
talks, please contact Simone Davalos--- simone@longnow.org,
415-561-6582.<br><br>
You are welcome to forward this note to anyone you think might be
interested.<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>--Stewart
Brand<br><br>
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Stewart Brand<br>
The Long Now Foundation -
<a href="http://www.longnow.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.longnow.org</a><br>
Seminars:
<a href="http://www.longnow.org/10klibrary/Seminars.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.longnow.org/10klibrary/Seminars.htm</a></blockquote>
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