The Species Barrier #16 Podcast & Show Notes

Coming up in this episode... just how sustainable is infinite growth on a finite planet? We're joined by experts in the field. Professor Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb and Dave Gardner the director of the documentary Growthbusters.

We look back on the screening of Vegucated, look forward to Go Green Week, Lord Stern admits his climate change review underestimated the situation, the UK's "baby boom" leads to a midwife shortage, African wildlife in decline, David Attenborough calls humans "a plague on earth" and quinoa corrections.

Captain Paul Ehrlich of The Population Bomb

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Show Notes for episode #16 of The Species Barrier:

Go Green Week: http://environment.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/go-green/

GrowthBusters: http://www.growthbusters.org/

Baby boom/Midwife crisis: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/baby-boom-brings-midwife-crisis-8459215.html

Elephants in crisis: http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2013/s3683920.htm

West African Lions on the brink: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/08/west-african-lions-extinction-report

Mackerel fishes no longer "sustainable": http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/22/mackerel-off-conservationists-eat-list

New Garbage patch in the sea discovered: http://5gyres.org/posts/2013/01/17/a_new_garbage_patch_discovered_the_south_pacific_gyre

David Attenborough calls humans "A plague on earth": http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/humans-are-a-plague-on-earth-sir-david-attenborough-warns-that-negative-effects-of-population-growth-will-come-home-to-roost-8461570.html

Bindi Irwin censored on Population: http://www.news.com.au/world/hillary-clinton-tries-to-silence-brave-bindi/story-fndir2ev-1226560803039

Stern: Climate change much worse than first thought: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/27/nicholas-stern-climate-change-davos

China's economic growth and pollution: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9815006/Chinese-leaders-have-failed-to-shield-environment-from-economic-growth.html

Quinoa correction: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/22/quinoa-bolivian-farmers-meat-eaters-hunger

MAHB: http://mahb.stanford.edu/

Paul Ehrlich's new paper "too optimistic": http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/22/population-bomb-scientist-nobody-has-the-right-to-as-many-children-as-they-want/

Mother: http://www.motherthefilm.com/

Transition Lincoln: http://transitionlincoln.org.uk/