12:16:12 From Dane : What will cause the population to level off? 12:16:30 From Rick MD : Climate change, war? 12:16:50 From Virginia : Loss of potable water 12:17:54 From John : I’m thinking many wars; famine; breakdown of public infrastructure 12:17:55 From Dane : When talking to others about population, many say, "Since most say that population will level out anyway, why do anything?" 12:18:04 From Lila G: Make birth control free and accessible to all. 12:19:01 From Dane : LG, that is job #1 in my book!!!!! Much better than the alternative ways of leveling out population. 12:20:15 From Marian Starkey : Dane and Lila, here’s an article for you, if you haven’t already seen it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/04/14/male-birth-control-pill-gel/ 12:20:48 From Dane Kamin : Thanks Marian. 12:21:57 From Virginia : Also, methane gas which is more potent than carbon dioxide. Texas is the major producer of oil and gas in the US. 12:22:06 From Janice : Gas has CO2 12:24:55 From Lila : Thanks Marian. 12:27:56 From Virginia : Consumerism is a major problem with the US. 12:32:44 From Karen : In the period of 20 years, India’s consumption increased 6-fold per capita consumption 12:34:39 From Janice : …..In Canada new home must be solar and not gas in the house. When you bet play driver the driver must go back to the thing to driver That is GREAT 12:36:17 From Karen : Environmental degradation depends partly on the size of ecological footprints of the inhabitants 12:37:10 From Rogan : What is PopConn’s specific strategy? 12:37:27 From John : It's ALL about WASTE...waste of Gaia's (Earth) resources! 12:39:45 From Dane : Will one of your sessions consider workable programs that increase access to contraceptives? 12:40:19 From John : Efficiency of USE! Efficient use of matter, energy, renewables! 12:40:25 From Martha : What a great presentation. Hope to see it again. Thanks 12:41:35 From Stephanie Wolfe : Hi Martha, we will share a recording to the presentation and the presentation slides in a follow-up email. Stay tuned! 12:42:19 From stan : Very nice. Several groups of ecologists have estimated that the earth can only support 2-4 billion sustainably. Limits to Growth and some others predict that there will be a collapse (i.e mortality will rise due to famine, pestilence and war as Malthus wrote). Can you address this scenario? 12:42:36 From Dane : Population will level out that quickly due to development???? not a chance. 12:42:39 From Joan : Thank you for a very informative presentation. Much food for thought and action. 12:43:19 From John : I agree an ecologically viable approach; make birth control free/accessible to all as mentioned above 12:43:20 From John : Have the late Hans Rosling's population projections ca. 2000 been updated? I need to check w/ Gapminder and Uwe Rosling. 12:43:49 From Karen : Dane, Development in the form of girl’s education does lower fertility rate by 4-5 chilren 12:44:48 From Leslie: Has the concept of steady-state economy entered the conversation? Check out CASSE 12:45:25 From John Eldon : Contraceptive access and affordabillity won't help in paternalistic countries with religious objections. We saw this with the Middle Eastern and north African outliers on the birth rate vs. prosperity chart. 12:45:42 From Karen : Also developmemt in the form of health care also lowers fertility rate if family planning methods and education is available 12:46:32 From John : Thank you, Karen. I hope you are right in general. 12:47:04 From John : We need women's empowerment as well as education. 12:47:23 From Karen : One of the barriers to family planning is difference in language between doctor and patient 12:47:38 From John : We must DE-contribute Hyde! 12:48:20 From Arthur Jr : Assuming that the world population will eventually stabilize in the near future, how will we deal with overconsumption and reducing greenhouse gas emissions? It seems that people don't want to give up using fossil fuels to drive cars, fly to vacation areas, produce luxuries for purchase, etc. 12:48:33 From Lila : What are the names of the organizations doing the most heavy lifting, as far as getting birth control to the most people on the planet? 12:48:39 From Marian Starkey (she/her) : https://res.cloudinary.com/dhu2eru5b/images/v1630050904/websites/pai2020/Just-the-Math/Just-the-Math.pdf 12:48:56 From John : Arthur -- we do it through increasing materials and energy efficiency. 12:49:25 From Dane : UpstreamUSA.com has a great model to get contraceptives to women. It works!!!! 12:52:49 From Leslie : The Earth won’t wait for future pop growth to stabilize and decline without approaching a steady-state economy now! 12:53:33 From Katherine : Or whether it goes down because of starvation, war, pandemic or educating and empowering women 12:54:35 From Virginia : Much of the export of wheat and corn would have gone to less developed countries in Ukraine… this year 12:55:08 From Leslie : For first world economies, steady-state requires a de-growth economy first! 12:56:13 From John : It MEANS, we must sacrifice our wasteful lifestyles for an energy re-balance, on a global scale! Justice...fairness, efficiency! 12:56:18 From Leslie: Population Connection should join forces with CASSE! 12:57:50 From Karen : Universal Health Care will help alot 12:57:50 From Katherine : But we're educating ourselves over and over again. How do we grow awareness and understanding of this? 12:58:10 From Leslie : Change of behavior beyond reproductive, like food production/consumption, etc. must me follwed 12:58:13 From Renato : Thank you for your time 12:58:41 From Dane : Nice job everyone. Thank you. 12:58:41 From Ana : Thank you. 12:58:42 From Natalie Widel : Thank you everyone for joining us! 12:58:49 From Lila Greaves : Thank you! 12:58:50 From Virginia Schilz to Hosts and panelists : Thanks! 12:58:56 From Roger Ludlow : Enjoyed it. 12:59:01 From Betsy Leonard : Thank you! Veryinformative 12:59:01 From Adam Englund : Adam Englund e/em/eir Rosarito MX