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How many healthy people can the earth support?

Speaker(s):   Professor Christopher Dye

Date/Time:  23/04/2009

From Malthus to the Club of Rome, predictions about maximum population size have been too conservative.

We now live with 6-7 billion others and the "population bomb" is yet to explode. So what really is the upper limit for healthy coexistence?

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