Originally published in 1995, after decades of steady growth, this book was written at a time when the worlds food supply was no longer keeping up with population increases. This book examines the causes of the imbalance in the food/population equation and suggests ways in which Malthusian checks can be countered. It calls for an international strategy to restore global security, and a budget to implement it, with a massive redirection of the worlds financial resources. On one side of the argument the authors advocate increased expenditure on family planning services, education, and womens rights. On the other, they stress the environmental importance of reforestation and soil conservation schemes to halt the deterioration of the agricultural resource base.
Originally published in 1995, this book was written at a time when the worlds food supply was no longer keeping up with population increases. This book examines the causes of the imbalance in the food/population equation and suggests ways in which Malthusian checks can be countered.
1. Entering a New Era Part 1: Reading the Trends
2. Food Insecurity
3.
Ninety Million More
4. Climbing the Food Chain Part 2: The Three Food Systems
5. Overharvesting the Oceans
6. Overgrazing Rangelands
7. Limits of the Plow
Part 3: Losing Momentum
8. Spreading Water Scarcity
9. The Fertilizer Falloff
10. Struggling to Raise Yields
11. Environmental Deductions Part 4: Looking
Ahead
12. Carrying Capacity: The Big Four
13. Carrying Capacity: The Next
Nine
14. The Growing Imbalance Part 5: Taking Charge
15. Reassessing
Population Policy
16. Turning the Tide.
Lester Russell Brown is one of the leading experts on environmental science and is the founder and former president the famous Worldwatch Institute, a non-profit research institute devoted to global environmental concerns. He has has been described by the Washington Post as "one of the worlds most influential thinkers". Lester is the author of 54 books that have been translated in more than 40 languages. His principal research areas include food, population, water, climate change, and renewable energy.
Hal Kane has worked on climate and sustainability for more than three decades in roles ranging from executive director, strategic planner, technical analyst, government official, and program manager to researcher and writer -- and on substantive topics including energy, finance, water, agriculture, trade, hunger, and refugees.
