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How Many People Can the Earth Support? Book

The best thing about this book is that it doesn't answer the question asked in its title. At least not directly. Joel Cohen understands that nobody really knows how many people can fit on our planet, thanks to constant technological advances in areas like crop yield. He is rightly skeptical of the Malthusian doomsayers who constantly predict catastrophe, but also shows that current rates of population growth cannot continue forever. A more extended discussion of politics might have helped--China's horrific one-child rule barely comes up--but for an honest treatment of human population dynamics, this is a very good source.Read More

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    /COHEN A compelling new analysis of world population, this penetrating assessment of one of the most crucial issues of our time reviews the history of world popluation growth and appraises that can be known about its future. "The definitive work on the global population problem."--Edward O. Wilson. Excerpts in The Sciences and Dis.

  • 0393314952
  • 9780393314953
  • JE Cohen
  • 18 December 1996
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 544
  • New edition
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