Main photo: “The Death of Socrates” by Jacques-Louis David, public domain
We are a community of persons, based in the Kansas City Metro Area, who are lovers of truth, reason, and people.
“The solution has to start with the real story” Raoul Peck
(Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84206282809,
meeting location, map, and more Zoom options below.)
Program for Sunday, June 11, 2023 – 2:00 to 4:00pm
Increasing Global Population: A Bane to Sustainability?
Ken Schmitz, Professor of Physical Chemistry, UMKC.
A presentation of background information, followed by an informal discussion on the increasing global population and environmental sustainability.
[1] Image credit: US Population graph through this April, by G. Elliott, from FRED Economic Research Data (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/POPTHM . (License: hereby declared public domain, email secretary@ for raw data and Excel spreadsheet if you desire.)
Future Programs
June 11: Increasing Global Population: A Bane to Sustainability. Ken Schmitz, Professor of Physical Chemistry, UMKC.
Enjoy our return to meeting in person at UMKC, Haag Hall. See directions below.
Our intent is to continue the combined Zoom and in-person format we have been using over the last year, but back in Haag Hall for the in-person participants.
There are two ways to join our meeting (2:00 to 4:00 PM)
1. In Person: 312 Haag Hall, UMKC:

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Our Sunday CoR meetings are now held in Haag Hall, 312, on the UMKC Campus. Free parking is plentiful on Sundays. It is strongly advised (because of the extreme convenience provided) that the parking building be used. Drive to level 4 of the parking building at the corner of 52nd and Rockhill Road. (The entrances are a little south-west on Charlotte street.) After parking, walk across the aerial skywalk to Haag and Royall Halls. The skywalk dead-ends in a hallway on the 3rd floor. After the reaching the hallway, turn to your right. Walk a few steps, turn to your right. Enter Haag 312.
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/b3XtZV2LaBh8diM97
Google and Apple Maps give accurate parking garage directions for “5211 Charlotte St., Kansas City, MO.” Spiral up the garage to level 4 on the west side, and use the east side to descend to the street level. (If on the way you wind up on Holmes, drive east on 53rd to Charlotte, as 52nd is one-way westbound, but to exit to Holmes use 52nd. Most will exit directly to Rockhill, and must use 53rd.)
OR
2. Zoom meeting at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84206282809 (Click here for web browser or Zoom enabled cell phone.)
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Telephone or mobile phone: +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston).
Meeting ID: 842 0628 2809
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For past programs, please check out our Monthly schedules page.