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SUMMARY:Population\, Environment\, Extinction and Ethics - Paul Ehrlich (S
 tanford University)
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CONTACT:Dr Yang Liu
DESCRIPTION:Prof Ehrlich received early inspiration to study ecology. When
  in his high school years he read William Vogt's Road to Surivival\, an ea
 rly study of the problem of rapid population growth and food production. H
 e graduated in zoology from the University of Pennsylvania and took MA and
  Ph.D. degrees from the University of Kansas. He became a full professor o
 f 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 resou
 rces and a heavily burdened life-support system\; otherwise\, he feared\, 
 “mankind will breed itself into oblivion.” He published a distillation
  of his many articles and lectures on the subject in The Population Bomb (
 1968) and wrote hundreds of papers and articles on the subject. 
LOCATION:The Babbage Lecture Theatre\, New Museums Site\, Pembroke Street\
 , Cambridge\, CB2 3QZ
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