Critical Masses: The Global Population Challenge Paperback - 1995
by George D. Moffett
Based on conversations with families and individuals from Kenya to Guatemala, Mexico to Thailand, a diplomatic correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor unveils the human face of the population crisis, traces its history and evolution, and explains why the decisions made during the '90s will determine the fate of the earth as a home for human beings.
Summary
Award-winning journalist and scholar George D. Moffett has traveled around the world to meet the people who confront the daily reality of the rising numbers – farmers in Kenya, squatters in the slums of Cairo, woman entrepreneurs in Bangladesh, relief workers, holy men, economists, diplomats. History, survey, and policy guide, Critical Masses serves to give warning but also provides a positive presecription for change.
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- Title Critical Masses: The Global Population Challenge
- Author George D. Moffett
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, United Kingdom
- Date December 1, 1995
- ISBN 9780140232264 / 0140232265
- Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.09 x 0.71 in (19.71 x 12.93 x 1.80 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 363.91
Media reviews
Paul R. Ehrlich, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Vividly conveys the population-driven environmental, social, political, and economic disintegration that is occurring worldwide"
Scientific American
"Brings into stark relief the effects of over-population on the lives of real people."
Publisher's Weekly
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