Free and open to the public, Seager’s 7 p.m. presentation in Snider Music Recital Hall will focus on the threats posed by uncontrolled population growth. His talk, co-sponsored by the College of Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, and the Yokuts Group of the Mother Lode Chapter of the Sierra Club, is titled “Global Population: 6.8 Billion and Growing, Are We There Yet?”
Seager’s extensive background includes work with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as a Congressional aide. Seager served under seven-term U.S. Representative Peter Kostmayer of Pennsylvania, succeeding him in 2005 as President of Population Connection, formerly known as Zero Population Growth.
Seager will talk about the impacts of the earth’s population growing by one billion people every 12 years to its current number of nearly 6.8 billion. He contends that there is a clear connection between human population growth and virtually every global challenge, from poverty to climate change and from species extinction to political instability of failed nation-states.
Seager’s presentation will include a brief overview of the causes of rapid population growth, its impacts, and how to meet this challenge through voluntary approaches such as access to affordable family planning and empowerment of women.