on april 1st, 2011, in the washington post justice richard goldstone reversed himself. this was commissioned by the human rights council. the mission was to investigate the facts surrounding war crimes allegations, arising out of operational costs. in january of 2009, gaza operation. the three week campaign sought to stop hamas's firing of mortar shells and rockets and missiles at israel's civilian population. following publication in 2009 the goldstone report became the protest for those determined to denounce israel's as a criminal nation. writing for the post goldstone withdrew the gravest charge which was presented as a legal finding that israel adopted a strategy of humiliating and killing palestinian civilians in gaza and deliberately destroyed civilian infrastructure. it was well established that, quote, civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy by israel. there never was evidence to support that grotesque charge. goldstone acknowledged nothing more than an endorsed report to promulgate the slander that israel adopted a criminal strategy. th

professor jack goldstone is a sociologist at george mason school of public policy.taggering figure. we already live in a world where 900 million people have no access to clean water, nearly a billion go hungry, 2.6 billion have no adequate sanitation. so what does that mean? 7 billion people. what does that mean for the planet? >> well, 7 billion is a huge number. it's not a stopping point. there are another 2, possibly 3 billion more on the way if things go on as expected. what that means is we can't proceed with business as usual if we simply keep dumping the garbage and wasting the water and fouling the air the way we've been doing. the planet's not going to be happy and neither will we. >> with added population you have to factor in ageing as well. almost half of all adults in germany, italy, ja and south korea are living to the age 60 or older. people living a longer life span. how does this affect the global economy? especially in terms of how we consume resources like fuel and food like you were just saying? >> well, the good news is the fact the population i

goldstone, good morning to you, sir. >> good morning, craig. >> give us a sense of the size and the ratet is our world population growing? >> what's amazing is world population is growing faster than ever. we added 1 billion people in just the last 12 years. it looks like we're going to add another 2 billion by mid-century, and then another billion after that. now, it's a good thing. it's because people are living longer and more children are surviving, but the numbers do add up quickly. >> well, it's a good thing for some of us. for others, maybe not so much. i want to talk about that in just a moment. let's talk about the population boom. where are these boom centers? which continents and areas are going to be seeing the largest numbers of people? >> the biggest boom is going to be in africa. africa is expected to grow from about 1 billion people today to over 3 billion by the end of this century. at that point, well over one out of three people in the world will be someone living in sub-saharan africa. that's a huge change from today, when it's about one in six, one in seven. >> what