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A critical look at new technologies, new approaches and new ways of thinking, from politics to media to environmental sustainability.
We face multiple looming demographic crises — and our responses seemingly contradict each other.
A rapidly aging population means that we need more children to be born. But it's foreseeable that resources on Earth simply can't sustain many more people.
How can we solve this conundrum?
Original broadcast on May 22, 2022
Guests
Dr Stuart Gietel Basten — Professor of Social Science and Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Dr Marco Amati — Associate professor of International Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
Deborah Devis — Science Communicator
Dr Anumitra Mirti — Senior Associate — Sustainability, Beca
Professor Nick Parr — Demographer, Macquarie University
Future Tense
A critical look at new technologies, new approaches and new ways of thinking, from politics to media to environmental sustainability.
