{"id":5043,"date":"2018-05-17T15:06:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T14:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2018-05-17T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T14:17:03","slug":"pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2018\/pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Population Matter? \u2013 evening about population growth and the sustainability of the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"0.4265903984007968\">On Monday 14 May a lively group listened and engaged interactively with<\/span><span id=\"0.4265903984007968\">\u00a0St<\/span>eve Bown\u2019s talk \u201cDoes Population Matter?\u201d\u00a0<span class=\"x_x_textexposedshow\">on the consequences of human population growth to our planet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/Population.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5029 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/Population.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/Population.jpg 396w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/Population-300x96.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a>Steve Bown is a doctor and trustee of the charity, Population Matters \u2013 which has high profile conservationists Richard Attenborough and Chris Packham as Patrons. Steve started the evening introducing the subject from the global perspective and after coffee showed photographs and spoke about his personal experiences in Kenya, supporting the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dandelionafrica.net\/\">Dandelion Project<\/a><\/strong>, and the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaseafrica.org.uk\/\">CHASE Africa<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>charity, helping run Health &amp; Family Planning Clinics in rural Africa, empowering women to make their own choices on childbirth and health issues.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/199-Population-Matters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5041\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/199-Population-Matters-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/199-Population-Matters-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/199-Population-Matters-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/199-Population-Matters-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/199-Population-Matters.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 21st century, human activity demands more of the Earth than it can provide, and threatens the health of the natural environment on which we all depend. The more of us there are, the more we consume the planet\u2019s natural resources, build in its wild places and pump carbon into its atmosphere.\u00a0<strong>10,000 years ago our planet had to sustain just a few million people. Today, it must sustain\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.populationmatters.org\/the-issue\/population\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seven-and-a-half billion<\/a>\u00a0and by 2050, 10 billion is most likely<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more about the issues faced by the planet and what organisations like Population Matters are doing please see this website\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.populationmatters.org\/\">\u00a0www.populationmatters.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Steve is pictured here with Club President Linda Shall (l) and Janet Tansley (r). Linda and Janet are both Members of the Club\u2019s\u00a0Sustainable Environment and Wellbeing (SEW) Team and this event was organised as a Sustainable St Albans activity.<strong>\u00a0You can read more about Sustainable St Albans events on the website\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablestalbans.org\/\">www.sustainablestalbans.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 14 May a lively group listened and engaged interactively with\u00a0Steve Bown\u2019s talk \u201cDoes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[401,400,396,12,60,11,206,395,188,399,13,111,99],"class_list":["post-5043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","category-club-projects","tag-chase-africa","tag-dandelion-project","tag-population-matters","tag-soroptimist","tag-soroptimist-international","tag-st-albans","tag-st-albans-and-district","tag-steve-bown","tag-sustainability","tag-sustainable-st-albans","tag-women","tag-womens-group","tag-womens-organisation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Does Population Matter? \u2013 evening about population growth and the sustainability of the planet | News | Blog | Events | SI St Albans and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI St Albans and District : Blog &amp; News : Does Population Matter? \u2013 evening about population growth and the sustainability of the planet : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI St Albans and District . 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