Population Collapse: Our Next Apocalypse?

In the late 60s and early 70s, the popular press was filled with apocalyptic predictions on the demise of society as a result of uncontrolled human population growth.  Now we are hearing the opposite, population collapse will be the end of society.  In this two-lecture series, we explore what happened to shift from gross over population to terminal under population.  Part 1 focuses on why the “population bomb” never went off.  Part 2 will discuss the societal implications of population decline.

Speaker Bio: Greg Dewey retired to Sacramento after a lifelong career as a faculty member and administrator in a number of colleges and universities.  He and his wife, Cindy, came to Sacramento in 2022 to be near family. They immediately fell in love with the American River and hike or bike along it almost daily. They both became involved in Effie Yeaw. Cindy has worked as a docent, and Greg…