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These resources are links to Population Videos which can give back ground information to anyone interested in population. These videos are supposed to be informative and cover some very good lectures on population, some systems for measuring the impact of population on the environment, and finally on how man has had an impact on climate change. These are interconnected topics.

Aubrey Manning: Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University from 1973 to 1997. He later became Emeritus Professor. He ¬was very much admired for his views and in particular for contribution to the population movement both in public capacity as a Professor with the Centre for Human Ecology and in his private capacity as supporter of several NGO’s.

John Guillebaud: Professor John Guillebaud (now retired) was Emeritus Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health at University of London. He was born in Burundi and brought up in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya and Britain. He qualified as a medical doctor from University of Cambridge in 1964. He was the Chairman of the Optimum Population on Trust, later to become Population Matters. His lectures were always informative, gripping and a joy to listen to. Here he is in a TED talk on the subject of “Sex and the Planet

Hans Rosling: (27 July 1948 – 7 February 2017) was a Swedish physician, academic, and public speaker. He was the Professor of International Health at Karolinksa Institute. Hans Rosling was brilliant communicator and won the United Nations Population Award. Although lulls us a bit in thinking that all is going to be alright, his lectures are worth listening to.

Why the world population won’t exceed 11 billion

Overpopulation: Hans Rosling

Alexandra Paul: This is a powerful TED Lecture on Overpopulation.
Title: “Overpopulation facts – the problem no one will discuss”:

Partha Dasgupta pursued undergraduate studies in Physics at the Hans Raj College, India, graduating in 1962 and in Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1965. He obtained a PhD in Economics at Cambridge in 1968 with thesis titled “Population, growth and non-transferable capital (investigations in the theory of optimum economic growth). Research interests have covered welfare and development economics; the economics of technological change; population, environmental, and resource economics; social capital; the theory of games; the economics of global warming,[3] and the economics of malnutrition. He is economist who believes in population restraint. Partha Dasgupta believes that population of the globe is double what it should be.

Partha Dasgupta and Aisha Dasgupta:  How many people can Earth support in comfort?     

Michael Vardon from Australian Bureau of Statistics explains how Australia is using Natural Capital Accounting to manage the Great Barrier Reef

Title: Natural Capital Accounting Demystified
System of Environmental Economic Accounting: SEEA
Climate Change
Peter Wadhams ScD (born 14 May 1948), is professor of Ocean Physics, and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group in University of Cambridge. He is best known for his work on sea ice. Nobody has had as much first-hand experience as he has had in climate change.
Ecological Footprint Explained
The ecological footprint measures human demand on nature, i.e., the quantity of nature it takes to support people or an economy. It tracks this demand through an ecological accounting system.

https://www.footprintnetwork.org/educational-videos

United Nations Goals for Development

Millenium Development Goals 2000. Michael Green

Using the Social Progress Index

Farming in India and Impact of Climate Change.
Philippines (Sea Rise) & Guatamala (Drought)
Indonesia (Sea Rice) & Russian Permafrost Melt & Camaroon in Africa (Drought and Climate refugees, & Civil Unrest) & Lake Chad (50 Million People potential refugee problem.) Possibly 3 to 4 billion displacement this century due to climate change.
This Video provokes Debate but also provokes controversy.
What not to do?