Science Summit on World Population

Abstract

Representatives of national academies of science from throughout the world met in New Delhi, India on 24–27 October 1993, in a Science Summit on World Population. The conference grew out of two earlier meetings, one of The Royal Society of London and the US National Academy of Sciences, the other an international conference organised by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Statements published by both groups expressed a sense of urgent concern about the expansion of the world's population and concluded that if current predictions of population growth prove accurate and patterns of human activity on the planet remain unchanged, science and technology may not be able to prevent irreversible degradation of the environment and continued poverty for much of the world.