The Coming Extinction of the Human Race? Overpopulation and Global Population Control

Steven Mosher

Tuesday, 26 Feb 2002 at 8:00 pm – Molecular Biology Auditorium

Internationally known Steven Mosher is president of the Population Research Institute and director of the Asian Studies Center of the Claremont Institute. In1979 he became the first American social scientist to live in rural China after their Communist revolution. His best selling, A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One- Child Policy , is one of several books written based on his firsthand observations of a government telling families how many children they should-or should not-have. His articles on such topics as population control and female infanticide have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, The Asian Wall Street Journal, and the Ladies Home Journal.

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