Stanford Report, May 27, 2009

Thinking Twice: Can Western Civilization Survive?

Each month Stanford scholars take a multi-disciplinary look at the same issue from their uniquely informed points of view in Thinking Twice.

This month's forum question is "Do you think Western civilization as we know it will exist in one hundred years?"

Ian Morris, Professor of Classics & History, discusses "The Specter of Apocalypse."

Paul Ehrlich, the Bing Professor of Population Studies, asks "Can Western Civilization Avoid Collapse?"

Read the "Thinking Twice" essays