The best overpopulation and population problem videos

The Best Ten
Population videos

Garret Hardin on overpopulation
http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/videos/video_1720_segment1.html

Albert Bartlett on the exponential function
http://www.guba.com/watch/3000053112
http://www.celsias.com/article/the-mathematics-that-contemporary-economics-ignore/

John Holdren on climate disruption
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/17661/global_climate_disruption.html

E. O. Wilson, Michael Novacek, and Charlie Rose on the Sixth Extinction
http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/4410

Ted Turner on Charlie Rose - the important discussion starts at 26:30
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/9019

Dr Jack Alpert's incredibly informative 10 part video series detailing the case for rapid population decline. Few people are willing to speak so fearlessly. A good place for anyone to begin educating themselves.
http://skil.org/Qxtras_folder-2/rapidpopdeclineorbust.html

The oft viewed ZPG population-growth time-lapse video. Starts at 0:45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmEosykOesE

Marvin Minsky rambles over many topics, overpopulation being one, with several proposed solutions (such as to genetically alter humans so that they are only 6 inches tall).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYsTv-ap3XQ

Newer, shorter, version of Inconvenient Truth slide show. Al Gore declares his "optimism".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUO8bdrXghs

Jared Diamond on the collapse of societies. It is a short distance between the fate of Easter Islanders and the current fate of the humans on Earth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IESYMFtLIis

Daniel Quinn on the food / population equation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPRJQpWhE0o&feature=PlayList&p=121289A291429DB8&index=9

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