Empty Handed Advocacy Short from Population Action International on Vimeo.

   

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Directed by Christy Turlington Burns

In her gripping directorial debut, Christy Turlington Burns shares the powerful stories of at-risk pregnant women in four parts of the world, including a remote Maasai tribe in Tanzania, a slum of Bangladesh, a post-abortion care ward in Guatemala, and a prenatal clinic in the United States.

No Woman, No Cry Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F6hngJFGOk

To go the original source and learn more about the film and about maternal health issues, visit http://www.everymothercounts.org/film

“You can’t just mention [population] in passing…If you’re going to talk about it, [students] will probably be interested in it, and you have to give it a really serious treatment,” cautioned Jennifer Sciubba, Mellon Environmental Fellow and professor at Rhodes College, during a panel discussion on science and policy in the classroom at the 2010 International Studies Association Conference.

Drawing on her experience as a practitioner of population studies, both within the Beltway and in the classroom, Sciubba shared techniques for bridging the gaps that exist between the study of political science and issues of population and environment. “I don’t think there’s that much of a difference between policy makers and students in some ways. They want to know the solutions, and they want you to break it down for them,” she said.

Bringing demography into the classroom should not start with population, recommended Sciubba. Rather, population and environment should be thought of as elements that shape and facilitate understanding of each topic covered in International Relations theory, from issues of conflict, war, and cooperation, to economics and development.

“It’s possible,” she concluded, “to put these things in any course–they’re part of the discipline. If we go back to some of the roots of international relations, this is how people thought of it to begin with and it’s very interesting to get back to that.”

Please click here to link to a ten-minute video of her presentation

Jennifer Sciubba is the author of a forthcoming book on demography and security,The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security, Praeger International Security Press, 2010

Professor Bartlett has given his celebrated one-hour lecture, "Arithmetic, Population and Energy: Sustainability 101" over 1,600 times to audiences with an average attendance of 80 in the United States and world-wide. His audiences have ranged from junior high school and college students to corporate executives and scientists, and to congressional staffs. He first gave the talk in September, 1969, and subsequently has presented it an average of once every 8.5 days for 36 years. His talk is based on his paper, "Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis," originally published in the American Journal of Physics, and revised in the Journal of Geological Education.  (Read on for more information and to view the eight videos that make up the full lecture.)

Professor Al Bartlett begins his one-hour talk with the statement, "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

He then gives a basic introduction to the arithmetic of steady growth, including an explanation of the concept of doubling time. He explains the impact of unending steady growth on the population of Boulder, of Colorado, and of the world. He then examines the consequences steady growth in a finite environment and observes this growth as applied to fossil fuel consumption, the lifetimes of which are much shorter than the optimistic figures most often quoted.

He proceeds to examine oddly reassuring statements from "experts", the media and political leaders - statements that are dramatically inconsistent with the facts. He discusses the widespread worship of economic growth and population growth in western society. Professor Bartlett explains "sustainability" in the context of the First Law of Sustainability:

"You cannot sustain population growth and/or growth in the rates of consumption of resources."

The talk brings the listener to understand and appreciate the implications of unending growth on a finite planet, and closes noting the crucial need for education topic.

This introductory text is from Professor Bartlett’s website at http://www.albartlett.org/presentations/arithmetic_population_energy.html and introduces the 8 separate videos which together make up his talk

Lecture in 8 Parts:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&feature=channel
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb3JI8F9LQQ&feature=channel
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFyOw9IgtjY&feature=channel
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQd-VGYX3-E&feature=channel
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-X6EpvWWu8&feature=channel
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3y7UlHdhAU&feature=related
Part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyseLQVpJEI&feature=related
Part 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoiiVnQadwE&feature=channel