Explosion or Implosion? What’s Up (or Down) with Global Demographics?

Speaker: Jerry Collins. Cost: $15; free for fall subscribers and SU students and employees. Around the time most Lifelong Learners were born, the population of the planet was 2.5 billion. Now it is 8.3 billion. Due to decades of declining birthrates worldwide, demographers have begun to warn that the threat has shifted from too many people in our future to not enough. Jerry Collins has taught writing at Syracuse University, as well as writing and Asian Studies for the University of Maryland/Asian Division.

Organizer: Shepherd University Lifelong Learning

Location: Robert C. Byrd Center, Auditorium (and Zoom)

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