Exploring 7 Billion: Population, Inequities, and our Changing Climate

In late October, 2011, Earth became home to 7 billion people. For every one person alive at the turn of the 20th Century when many of our grandparents were children, there are now more than four. The world's resources are not growing in step with humans. Our dramatic resource exploitation has profound implications for our climate and for human health. But larger family sizes don't always correlate with greater resource consumption: a child born in the U.S. will be responsible for almost seven times the carbon emissions of a child born in China and 168 times the impact of a child born in Bangladesh.

Join experts from the Institute for Population Studies (IPS), Global Footprint Network, and Earth Island Institute as we explore the complex and critical, yet often not discussed, intersection of population growth and climate change and the effects both have on human health, women's rights, and the social and economic issues we face globally and locally.

We'll begin with a screening of the internationally acclaimed, award winning film, "Mother: Caring for 7 Billion" (www.motherthefilm.com), and follow with a panel and audience discussion.