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Monday, March 11
7:00-9:00pm

32-141  

 

The environmental damage being done to the earth has reached crisis proportions. Many causes have been proposed: too many people; industrial society; human ignorance or inability to control themselves; human nature (greed); and a "perpetual growth philosophy." Discussion will be focused on how the inner logic and normal functioning of our economic system is contributing to this crisis.  

 

Fred Magdoff, Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont

 

Lawrence Susskind, Department of Urban Studies and Planning; Director, MIT Science Impact Collaborative; Co-Director, Water Diplomacy Workshop

 

Daniel Fireside, Equal Exchange 

 

Read an article by Professor Magdoff: Global Resource Depletion: Is Population the Problem?  

 

Read Professor Susskind's blog.