Malthus Miffed: Are People the Problem, the Solution, or Both? An Introduction to Demography and Populations Study through an Examination of the World's Population   Professor Joel Cohen: Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations, Rockefeller University, Mathematical Biologist, Columbia University In the next fifty years the world will face population problems that it has never faced before. Billions will live in mega slums without access to clean water or medical care. In his lecture, Professor Joel Cohen teaches you how demography can provide answers to the life or death questions caused by the world's swelling population and dwindling resources. Can we prevent an outcome where wealthy western countries are in permanent population decline, while third world cities into swell into massively overcrowded slums with no access to education, healthcare, or hope? The Floating University Originally released September, 2011. Additional Lectures: Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NbBjNiw4tk

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1. The lecture was very illuminating. I already see and experience the pressure overpopulation is causing on various life and non-life forms. I hope Homo Sapiens are true to their Sapiens title and avert Malthus's dire predictions.
2. Judging from what he's presented , I guess earning a bachelors degree wasn't as worthless as I thought it was. Come to think of it, l I would have never fared as well without a college education. Personally, I think the future generations will have to earn post graduate degrees to remain competitive in the workplace.
3. 37:16 and on... hunger being invisible economically, what an interesting insight...and about supporting agriculture research for agriculture that actually supports those that are chronically hungry... (just putting this here in case someone wanted the timestamp where he mentions these topics)
4. pseudo science.  none of these left wing feel good pansies has the balls to look the brutal truths revealed by Darwin in the eye.  look into the death rates and birth rates of mocking birds, for instance.  now there is a species, like most other wild species, who is in tune with nature, who grows stronger and more efficient with every generation.  mankind is a species that has been domesticated by its own institutions.  one thing is certain and one thing only.  The Demon will have his feast.
5. Everybody should watch this
6. We don't want the nudist colony to be lost underwater.
7. Nature takes care of itself bozo
8. kalla cabron mamahuevo. Me como el panorama klk
9. how the hell you gentiles keep getting these cool slides to use for presentation...mark of the beast or some deal?
10. help me i need importante fcts about that video!!
11. The Malthusian trap still holds true today. By 2050, it will still.....
12. It's been stated that if everybody were to have the same standard of living as the average American, we'd need four planet Earths to satisfy everyone's demand. We obviously don't, so to lease a new car every three, get a new cell every two, have an LED screen in every room and generally waste everything is lunacy. We're robbing our future generations inheritance.
13. Poor guy, studio lighting must have made it unbearably hot. Towards the end, his perspiration soaked the armpits on his baggy, ill fitting button up.
    Excellent presentation identifying problems and solutions of population growth. However, it seems for all of humanities intelligence and ingenuity, we can't get our act together. People are like bacteria growing unchecked on a Petri dish until all the medium has been used up, and the toxins produced by the micro organisms metabolism has made the environment unsuitable to exist in. It is true that if we used our dwindling resources more effectively and were wealthier nations willing to share, instead of widening wealth poverty disparity, we could probably better sustain the current population. However, human greed prevents this from happening. The current "infinite growth paradigm that rules the global financial systems is clashing with finite resources" (P. Joseph, Zeitgeist).
14. makes sound sense!! True, based on data from undernourished and provisioned countries. Shocking that so many in the U.S. (1 in 7) households unable to properly feed their families...Does anyone have a more convincing theory as to reversing these issues? Why is it that when someone proposes actionable, and deductively reasoned proposals, that naysayers always rebut without offering a better or alternative solution? I say shut up or put up!!
15. How to fix overpopulation:
    1. Don't have kids
    2. Condoms
    3. Don't have kids
16. This is amazing, i'm currently studiying sociology but as soon as i finish i'll go for a master degree in demography!
17. The obvious fact that was missing: food production, as long as excess food is reaching to people they will expand, so bringing more food will only increase population.
18. A small misconception said by him: "Coastlines are where the continental plates of the oceans colide with the continents" not always true. As you can see in the map shown at 29:45 not all coast are where tectonic plates meet. Example of this is brazil where there are almost no earthquakes
19. you should be the pesident of United States