LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: A Crisis of Pessimism; 1. A WORLD APART; 2. SIX BILLION AND COUNTING; 3. CAN THE EARTH FEED EVERYONE?; 4. FISH TALES; 5. IS THE EARTH WARMING?; 6. WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE; 7. THE AIR WE BREATHE; 8. FOSSIL FUELS -- CULPRIT OR GENIE?; 9. SOLAR POWER TO THE PEOPLE; 10. NUKES TO THE RESCUE?; 11. WHEELS; 12. DON'T HARM THE PATIENT; 13. CHOICES; NOTES; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Summary
Drawing a completely new road map toward a sustainable future, Jack M. Hollander contends that our most critical environmental problem is global poverty. His balanced, authoritative, and lucid book challenges widely held beliefs that economic development and affluence pose a major threat to the world's environment and resources
