{"entry":{"title":"The Problem of Overpopulation","date":"Sat, 28 Sep 2013 04:00:00 +0000","author":"Hannah Gais, US News & World Report","description":"
If there's one thing we can agree on, it's that there are certainly a lot of us. But how much of a growing population can the earth really support – comfortably and without destroying it, that is?<\/p>
I caught up with Alan Weisman, an award-winning author, journalist and former University of Arizona professor at a talk this week in New York City at the New York Academy of Sciences about his latest book, \"Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth,\" which seeks to answer this existential question.<\/p>