SDARI Event Schedule
Meetings
SDARI meets regularly on the fourth Sunday of each month, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm (except as may be noted below), at the Joyce Beers Uptown Community Center (phone: (619) 543-9967, on Vermont Street, about two blocks north of University Avenue in the Hillcrest section of San Diego. Detailed directions to the meeting site, with maps, are on our Meeting Directions page.
Meetings generally involve a presentation by a distinguished speaker, followed by an open discussion. All meetings are free and open to the public, although donations are welcome (suggested donation: $5). For more information about SDARI, please drop us a line or call Keith at (619) 421-5844.
Social Time
The doors to the Joyce Beers Uptown Community Center open at 6:00 pm on regular SDARI meeting nights. Bring your own food if you wish and join us for social time before the meeting.
MAY 2008 Meeting
- SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2008 Speaker: Joseph J. Bookstein, M.D., Research Professor of Radiology at UCSD, Emeritus; Topic: Global Warming: The Population Connection.
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The real cause of global warming is not the burning of fossil fuels; that is only a proximate cause. The primary cause is the needs and wants of the global human population, now over 6.6 billion. Most proposals for slowing climate change emphasize costly technical alternatives to the burning of fossil fuels, alternatives often still in developmental stages applicable primarily in the more developed countries. These remedies all have significant limitations: insignificant impact, immature technology, counter-productivity, unacceptable cost, adverse environmental consequences, and/or high risk.
While technical strategies may play an ancillary role, adequate control of global warming will require direct address of the primary cause - global overpopulation. Despite modest and intermittent successes for reducing it, population growth continues unabated. The advent of global warming however constitutes a powerful new synergistic argument in support of population stabilization and reduction. This new argument, provides hope that the ascent of human numbers can finally be reversed. Methods, feasibility, and implementation strategies for voluntary population reduction will be presented.
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Future Meetings
Speakers and topics to be announced.
Directions to the Joyce Beers Uptown Community Center
Detailed directions and maps showing the location of the Joyce Beers Uptown Community center are on our Meeting Directions page.
Past presentations
For descriptions of many of the past presentations and other events at SDARI meetings, see our Event Archives.