When: Saturday, January 18, 2020, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Where: Jefferson Unitarian Church, 14350 W 32nd Ave · Golden, CO. How to find us: From I70, take the Youngfield/32nd Avenue exit in Wheat Ridge and go west on 32nd for about a mile, just past the roundabout on the south side. We will meet in the Mills Building 

We are doing a 6 part series of discussion programs on our finite planet and what we need to do to save it. Starting with Overpopulation, the biggest problem facing humanity, it is the major driver of other problems, such as climate change and pollution that is destroying the environment and our precious eco-systems. We simply can not continue to keep dumping people on the planet without serious catastrophic consequences. How can we feed everyone with healthy food, and when we do slow and reverse population growth, what happens to the global economy?

Tom will lead a short introduction to the series, then Jim will do a presentation on the problem of overpopulation.

The religious community does not want to discuss overpopulation as a taboo subject and big business wants more and more consumers to keep the economy growing. If this keeps up, the world will soon collapse due to the over-consumption of resources beyond the Earth’s ability to provide them. Something must be done or we are doomed. Humanism may be our only hope.

Here is the tentative schedule of topics in the series:

Jan. 18 – Introduction to the Series (Tom) and Overpopulation (Jim)
Feb. 15 – Global Warming & Climate Change
Mar. 21 – Sustainable Agriculture, GMOs, Eating Less Meat
Apr. 18 – Protecting & Healing the Biosphere – Air, Water, Land, Other Species
May 16 – Our World in a Hundred Years – Ian Kolsky
June 20 – Global Economics with Declining Population and Resource Limitations – Ralph

Audience participation is encouraged.

Breakfast pastries and beverages will be served and donations are appreciated.

We meet in the Mills Building behind JUC. Park on the east side and take the walkway between the buildings to the side entrance.
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The Jefferson Humanists Chapter of the American Humanist Association is very pleased to offer a regular explorations series on 3rd Saturdays, 10 to Noon, at Jefferson Unitarian Church (JUC). Each session will be slightly different and include several segments to showcase aspects of Humanism through a presentation, videos, movies, forums and explorations, followed by discussions. We will include time for participants to socialize and get acquainted, in keeping with our chapter goal of building community.
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We need your help to tell us what topics you’d like to see explored at upcoming Humanist Perspectives programs. Let’s spend a few minutes discussing this. Which past presentations did you like that we can expand on? Maybe you’ve seen some good Humanist videos to show. We are also looking for people to get involved with HP and help put presentations together as well as co-host sessions.