Examines the potential effect of adding an additional 3.3 billion people to the Earth's population over the next fifty years and proposes an immediate expansion of international family planning assistance to Third World nations.

Product Description: A courageous look at the world’s dwindling energy resources. Contending that the energy debate has been cast in the wrong terms, the author suggests that the problem would not be solved by asking: "What energy sources will be available to replace fossil fuels?’ but by questioning: "What populations can be supported at a decent standard by the energy sources that will be available after the transition from fossil fuels?’ Taking a brave stand, Grant suggests that with a bit of luck—we may be able to create a more harmonious balance with the rest of the biosphere, but at much lower population levels and less consumptive habits...read more

A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add humans back to this vision of a restored, healthy planet-only in harmony, not mortal combat, with the rest of nature.But with a million more of us every 4 1/2 days on a planet that's not getting any bigger, and with our exhaust overheating the atmosphere and altering the chemistry of the oceans, prospects for a sustainable human future seem ever more in doubt. For this long awaited follow-up book, Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed were probably the most important questions on Earth--and also the hardest: How many humans can the planet hold without capsizing? How robust must the Earth's ecosystem be to assure our continued existence? Can we know which other species are essential to our survival? And, how might we actually arrive at a stable, optimum population, and design an economy to allow genuine prosperity without endless growth?Weisman visits an extraordinary range of the world's cultures, religions, nationalities, tribes, and political systems to learn what in their beliefs, histories, liturgies, or current circumstances might suggest that sometimes it's in their own best interest to limit their growth. The result is a landmark work of reporting: devastating, urgent, and, ultimately, deeply hopeful.By vividly detailing the burgeoning effects of our cumulative presence, Countdown reveals what may be the fastest, most acceptable, practical, and affordable way of returning our planet and our presence on it to balance. Weisman again shows that he is one of the most provocative journalists at work today, with a book whose message is so compelling that it will change how we see our lives and our destiny.

Product Description: Every day, the human family grows by a quarter of a million people, many of them born into the very countries that can least afford to provide them with jobs, housing, and nutrition, and that are least able to prevent the environmental degradation that rapid population growth can produce...read more

The population explosion is putting enormous pressure on the world. Farmers cannot produce enough food to feed everyone. Families are living in overcrowded housing. Some people do not have access to clean water. Earth’s Growing Population explores some of the major issues people around the world are facing. Find out about rising unemployment, poor health care, and lack of education. This book also suggests ways in which people can ensure everyone has the same opportunities to live happy, healthy lives.

Product Description: Current population growth is leading to a depletion in natural resources and could eventually cause irreversible damage to the environment. This book attempts to explain trends in the growth of the global population and the ecological consequences by blending the insights of analytical economics and behavioral ecology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Anyone who cares about the future of humankind will appreciate Ending The Explosion. This book concentrates upon the world population crisis not because resolving that crisis is somehow humanity's only needed step toward a future of sustainable well-being...read more

Product Description: New York: Paragon House Publishers/an ICUS Book, 1985 First Edition. 6" x 9.25" tall; i-xvi + 263 pages with Conclusions, Contributiors, Sources, and Index.

Product Description: Listen to a short interview with Matthew ConnellyHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneFatal Misconception is the disturbing story of our quest to remake humanity by policing national borders and breeding better people. As the population of the world doubled once, and then again, well-meaning people concluded that only population control could preserve the "quality of life...read more

Product Description: At the current rate of increase, the world's population is likely to reach ten billion by the middle of the twenty-first century. What will be the challenges posed by feeding this population and how can they be addressed? Written to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Malthus' seminal Essay on the Principle of Population, this fascinating book looks at the intimate links between population growth and agricultural innovation over the past 10,000 years, illustrating how the evolution of agriculture has both shaped and been shaped by the course of world population growth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This latest Worldwatch Environmental Alert series book addresses the critical questions: How many people can the earth feed? And at what consumption levels? Lester and Kane assert the world's farmers can no longer be counted on to feed the growing world population--and that balancing between people and food now depends on family planners...read more

Product Description: This anthology provides an historical overview of the scientific ideas behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy, and public perception...read more

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Product Description: For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems. Our expanding footprint has tremendous momentum, and the insidious explosion of human impact creates a shockwave that threatens ecosystems worldwide for decades-possibly centuries...read more

Product Description: What are the impacts of population growth? Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world's population by the middle of this century?While it is common to hear about the problems of overpopulation, might there be unexplored benefits of increasing numbers of people in the world? How can we both consider and harness the potential benefits brought by a healthier, wealthier and larger population? May more people mean more scientists to discover how our world works, more inventors and thinkers to help solve the world's problems, more skilled people to put these ideas into practice?In this book, leading academics with a wide range of expertise in demography, philosophy, biology, climate science, economics and environmental sustainability explore the contexts, costs and benefits of a burgeoning population on our economic, social and environmental systems...read more

Product Description: Lindsey Grant examines the human condition as population and consumption levels approach the edges of the Earth's ability to support them. The book is a unique synopsis of the interactions among population, food production, the energy transition, air pollution and climate change, technology, trade polices, productivity and unemployment...read more

Product Description: Malthusian Worlds examines how US leadership in governing the population crisis pivots around the ability to link international and domestic objectives. The ability of the US to lead, however, is often made possible by the ability of the population crisis to enlist the US as a participant in the desire to regulate the quantity and quality of demographic variables...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author of The End of Nature presents a compelling argument for voluntary population control, demonstrating the necessity for couples to restrict themselves to having one child and its beneficial effects on the environment and family life. Reprint. PW.

The author of The End of Nature presents a compelling argument for voluntary population control, demonstrating the necessity for couples to restrict themselves to having one child and its beneficial effects on the environment and family life. 60,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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Explores how overpopulation, over consumption, and political and economic inequity are increasingly determining today's politics and shaping humankind's future, and demonstrates ways these often-neglected factors influence each other.

Product Description: By 2028, the world population will reach an estimated eight billion. Poor developing nations will experience the highest population growth. This book looks at the issue of overpopulation, its causes, and its impact on people and the environment...read more

A look at population growth and its effects on our environment. This book investigates how and why the population is growing so fast, the pressure on resources, the effects on wildlife and habitats, food distribution, living spaces and urbanization, migration and refugees. It suggests ways of controlling growth.

Product Description: How many people is too many? What happens when too many people are crowded into too little space? What can be done to control the world's population? Read this book to learn more about overpopulation and start thinking about what can and should be done to address this important issue...read more