You might think saving a child’s life today causes just 1 more person to exist. But what if that child goes on to have children, and those children have children, and so on? How do changes in population size and growth rates affect humanity’s longer-term future? And how should we approach the ethics of changing population sizes?
Join us on Monday, January 30 from 7-8:30 PM at BRB 2.136 to explore these questions with Gage Weston! Gage is an economics research associate at the Population Wellbeing Initiative at UT Austin, an interdisciplinary research organization studying the trends, consequences, and moral and political implications of population changes throughout the world. Gage also co-founded our EA chapter which he organized for nearly 3 years while he was a student at UT.
The talk will begin at 7:15 and will last for 30-45 minutes followed by Q&A (5-15 minutes). We will then break into groups of 4-6 people to discuss our thoughts on the ideas from the talk (15-20 minutes). If people want to continue hanging out casually after 8:30 you are welcome to stick around!
If you’re curious to learn more about the research partially behind this talk, feel free to contact Gage at gageweston@utexas.edu and check out his submission to a recent GiveWell “Change Our Mind” contest here.