Cut to the chase: tackling the population debate

Abstract

Fresh from the AFF premiere of The Vasectomist, Dr Doug Stein joins a panel of experts to discuss what’s at stake if we don’t slice into our growing population. But does Dr Stein’s vasectomy project offer a possible means of addressing the planet’s diminishing biodiversity or is it one man’s impossible mission? Dr Paul Ehrlich, Dr Doug Stein, Dr Lorna Hallahan and Dr Elizabeth Finkel do the maths around population growth and its impact on the earth. Chaired by Monica Dux, the panel will tackle the issues of birth control, family planning and the ethics of rolling out vasectomies into developing countries.