March 6, 2003

Contact: Sarah Ray

802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: March 6, 2003

MIDDLEBURY,

VT - Paul Ehrlich, noted author, conservation biologist and environmental

advocate, will give a lecture titled “Population, Consumption, Power

and International Ethics” at Middlebury College on Thursday, March

20, at 12:30 p.m. Since 1959, Ehrlich has been a member of the faculty

at Stanford University, where he is currently the Bing Professor of Population

Studies and the director of the Center for Conservation Biology. His talk,

the 2003 Scott Margolin Lecture in Environmental Affairs, will take place

in Dana Auditorium in Sunderland Language Center on College Street (Route

125). The event is free and open to the public.

Ehrlich’s biological research

includes a wide range of fields, from ecology and evolutionary biology

to behavior. He also collaborates with colleagues in economics, psychology,

political science and law in conducting policy research on human ecology.

His work has focused on the interactions between population growth, per

capita consumption, choices of technologies, equity issues, and warfare.

He is the author or co-author

of more than 800 scientific papers and articles in the popular press,

and more than 35 books, including “The Population Bomb,” “The

Birder’s Handbook,” “New World/New Mind,” “The Population

Explosion,” “Healing the Planet,” “The Stork and the

Plow,” “Betrayal of Science and Reason,” and “A World

of Wounds.”

Ehrlich is an honorary president

of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization Population Connection,

formerly named Zero Population Growth. He is also a fellow of the American

Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of

Arts and Sciences, and a member of the United States National Academy

of Sciences. His awards include the Crafoord Prize in Population Biology

and the Conservation of Biological Diversity.

The lecture is sponsored

by several Middlebury College organizations: the office of environmental

affairs, the environmental science program, the departments of economics

and biology, Atwater Commons and the Rohatyn Center for International

Affairs.

For more information, contact

Janet Wiseman of the Middlebury College Environmental Studies Program

at jwiseman@middlebury.edu

or 443-5710.