The End of Affluence Author:Paul R. Ehrlich In 1968 PAUL R. EHRLICH published THE POPULATION BOMB - warning us that without Zero Population Growth there would be no progress in the struggle for clean air, pure water, adequate food untainted by pesticide poisoning, and life in decent, uncrowded shelters. — And within a few short years America reached the seemingly impossible goal of the two... more »-child family.
Now THE END OF AFFLUENCE is at hand, with rising prices and food and energy scarcities. EHRLICH predicts a growing defection from the American Way Of Consumption - a movement whose leadership will not come from our established enstitutions, business corporations or government, but from ourselves. THE END OF AFFLUENCE contains a broad range of money-saving options - in home heating, dietary planning and more rational transportation - that will help you adapt to the new era of limited resources.« less
By the author of the Population Bomb, Paul R. Ehrlich. Published in the seventies but with great relevance in todays world of energy scarcities and rising prices. A thoughtful and enlightening book.