Drumbeat: August 4, 2012

theoildrum.com 04 Aug '12, 2pm

Drumbeat: August 4, 2012

Posted by Leanan on August 4, 2012 - 11:40am The implications of overpopulation are terrifying. But will we listen to them? Ten Billion , on the other hand, is a piece of theatre only because it occurs in a theatre. The curtain rises on a reconstruction of a modern office; we hear the melancholy sound of a cello; a middle-aged man walks on stage, opens his laptop and begins to talk. He says he's a scientist and not an actor – that will become obvious – but that the set is a "depressingly accurate" reproduction of his office in Cambridge. His name is Stephen Emmott. He's head of computational science at Microsoft Research in Cambridge and professor of computational science at Oxford, and what he wants to tell us about is the future of life, particularly human life, on Earth. And for the next 75 minutes that's what he does, moving just a little around the set with the help o...

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