Professor Brian Stewart's Annual Earth Day Talk -- Public Invited

 Fifty years ago, in 1972, a quantitative inquiry into the human prospect entitled Limits to Growth was published.  After a decade of growing environmental awareness, the public was primed to consider the boundaries that constrain human activity, and the book rapidly became an international bestseller.  Its message soon ran into a counternarrative in support of unlimited expansion of the human project.  This talk will examine the tension between these two narratives and take a hard look at how the forecasts of Limits have held up after half a century.

The event will take place in the Exley Science Center at the corner of Cross and Pine Streets. 

A Zoom link for remote attendance is available from our administrative assistant Dana Gordon-Giannuscio (dgordongannusc@wesleyan.edu)