Discuss solutions to poverty, global warming
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Join Ken Weiss in an online discussion -- via Google+ Hangout -- about population growth, climate change and other intractable problems at 3:30 p.m. today from UC Berkeley.
The newspaper explored such issues around the world in its recent five-part series on population growth in the developing world. Among other topics, the ‘Beyond 7 Billion’ series examined chronic hunger and mass migration in East Africa -- trends that one of the guests in today’s conversation, Dr. Malcolm Potts, believes will soon extend across the Sahel, an arid region of Africa just below the Sahara desert.
LIVE VIDEO DISCUSSION: Join us at 3:30 p.m. today
‘What you’ve been seeing from Somalia is going to happen in all those countries, all the way across from the Red Sea to the Atlantic Ocean,’ said Potts, a UC Berkeley professor of public health. ‘You’ve just seen a fraction of what’s going to happen in the next 10 or 20 years.’
Potts, who co-organized a conference focused on the Sahel region, will discuss solutions to the problems facing this part of Africa and other impoverished nations with soaring populations. He will be joined by Dr. Ndola Prata of UC Berkeley, William Ryerson of the Population Media Center, and Fatima Adamu from Usmanu Danfodiyo University in Sokoto, Nigeria.
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-- Kenneth R. Weiss