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SUMMARY:CSER Public Lecture Series - Prof Paul Ehrlich - Prof Paul Ehrlich
 \, President\, Center for Conservation Biology\, Bing Professor of Populat
 ion Studies at Stanford University.
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DESCRIPTION:Title: POPULATION\, ENVIRONMENT\, EXTINCTION AND ETHICS\n\nThe
  Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is delighted that Prof Ehrlich h
 as accepted our invitation to hold the Blavatnik Public Lecture in May. \n
 \nProf Ehrlich received early inspiration to study ecology. When in his hi
 gh school years he read William Vogt's Road to Surivival\, an early study 
 of the problem of rapid population growth and food production. He graduate
 d in zoology from the University of Pennsylvania and took MA and Ph.D. deg
 rees from the University of Kansas. He became a full professor of biology 
 at Stanford University and Bing professor of population studies from 1976.
  Though much of his research was done in the field of entomology\, Ehrlich
 's overriding concern became unchecked population growth. He was concerned
  that humanity treat the Earth as a spaceship with limited resources and a
  heavily burdened life-support system\; otherwise\, he feared\, “mankind
  will breed itself into oblivion.” He published a distillation of his ma
 ny articles and lectures on the subject in The Population Bomb (1968) and 
 wrote hundreds of papers and articles on the subject. \n\nPlease register 
 here if you would like to join us for this exciting lecture:  \nhttps://pr
 ofpaulehrlich.eventbrite.co.uk
LOCATION:Babbage Lecture Theatre\, New Museums Site\, Cambridge
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