Prof. Jeffery's final conclusion seemed quite disconnected from the rest of the facts he presented. In addition, some key supporting facts he needed in order to answer the audience questions were not provided, leaving his argument weak. He also seemed to mischaracterize some of the audience questions which was frustrating to watch. His focus left me with an appreciation for how we have slowed population growth, but this was not the intent of his final conclusion. I'd love to see this redone.
Though interesting to any interested, this lecture in its last few moments, proves entirely fruitless (pardon the pun) as with the loss of fossil water resources, and the environmental degradation of excess populations, in the worst of fresh water to population ratio disasters, trying to overcome the droughts, hundreds of millions of people will die the very nasty deaths from thirst and starvation. Jeffery is no idiot, but he said up front, that he was terribly under informed.
Prof. Jeffery's final conclusion seemed quite disconnected from the rest of the facts he presented. In addition, some key supporting facts he needed in order to answer the audience questions were not provided, leaving his argument weak. He also seemed to mischaracterize some of the audience questions which was frustrating to watch. His focus left me with an appreciation for how we have slowed population growth, but this was not the intent of his final conclusion. I'd love to see this redone.
Though interesting to any interested, this lecture in its last few moments, proves entirely fruitless (pardon the pun) as with the loss of fossil water resources, and the environmental degradation of excess populations, in the worst of fresh water to population ratio disasters, trying to overcome the droughts, hundreds of millions of people will die the very nasty deaths from thirst and starvation. Jeffery is no idiot, but he said up front, that he was terribly under informed.