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SUMMARY:Cambridge Festival: ‘Eleven’: The Rising Global Population and
  the Future of Humanity - Paul Hanley
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CONTACT:Cambridge University Bahá'í Society
DESCRIPTION:United Nations projections show the global population reaching
  11 billion and the world economy growing 500% by the end of this century.
  Can the planet accommodate 3 billion more people when our current ecologi
 cal footprint already exceeds Earth's biocapacity? This question will preo
 ccupy humanity throughout this century\, affecting everything we do from d
 esigning cities to producing food to using energy. Our mission is daunting
 . Somehow\, we have to support 40% more people\, raise billions out of pov
 erty and reduce our ecological footprint to the sustainable level it was w
 hen we were just 4 billion. However\, every facet of our social\, economic
  and political order – indeed the totality of the dominant global cultur
 e – compels us to maintain the status quo. Clearly\, we have to change d
 irection.\n\nJoin Paul Hanley\, journalist\, author of the award-winning b
 ook ELEVEN and Bahá'í\, as he considers how we got into this predicament
  and maps a way forward.\n\nPaul is a recipient of the Canadian Environmen
 t Award\, the Meewasin Conservation Award\, the Saskatchewan Sustainabilit
 y Award and the Rockefeller Foundation's Food System Vision 2050 Prize. Hi
 s book ELEVEN received the 2015 University of Saskatchewan President's Awa
 rd for Non-fiction. His biography Man of the Trees: Richard St Barbe Baker
 \, the First Global Conservationist features an introduction by Jane Gooda
 ll and a foreword by HRH King Charles. He has published a total of six boo
 ks and 1\,600 articles on the environment\, sustainable development\, agri
 culture and other topics. Alongside his writing\, Paul has extensive pract
 ical experience in organic gardening\, living on an off-grid acreage in Sa
 skatchewan for 10 years\, and helping to build Saskatchewan’s organic fa
 rming movements.\n\nRegistration page: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/even
 ts/eleven-rising-global-population-and-future-humanity
LOCATION:Online (register on signup page)
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