Rapid population growth and higher per person consumption create a dangerous bottleneck that threatens biodiversity, emeritus Harvard University biologist Edward O. Wilson warned a rapt Madison audience Wednesday night.
The one hope for easing the bottleneck is that as women’s liberation spreads across the globe and women gain control of their reproductive lives, the world’s birth rate will eventually go down, Wilson said during a Distinguished Lecture Series presentation to a nearly full house in the Wisconsin Union Theater.