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Full House: Reassessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity (Worldwatch Environmental Alert)
Full House Reassessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity - Worldwatch Environmental Alert Author:Lester R. Brown, Hal Kane After decades of steady growth, the world's food supply is no longer keeping up with population increases. Production of fish and grain per person has slowed to the point where feeding the 90 million being added each year is possible only by reducing consumption among those already here. These are the findings in this fourth volume in the Wo... more »rldwatch Environmental Alert series from the Worldwatch Institute.
In this volume, the authors propose a global strategy to restore food security and a budget to implement it. Their global food security budget calls for stepped up expenditures on both sides of the food/population equation. It includes investments not only to provide family planning services to all who want them, but also to eliminate the underlying causes of high fertility, such as female illiteracy. It also includes investments in an extensive reforestation and soil conservation effort, one that will arrest the deterioration of the agricultural resource base.
This is an investment the world cannot afford not to make. If national security is redefined to address the real security threats ... it will lead to a massive redirection of resources along the lines outlined in this book.« less