The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy

Hollander, J.M.

ISBN 10: 0520237889 / ISBN 13: 9780520237889

Editore: University of California Press, 2003

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• Titolo: The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy
• Editore: University of California Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0520237889
• ISBN 13: 9780520237889
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
• Peso: 600 grammi
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
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Riassunto

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. Pointing to the great strides that have been made toward improving and protecting the environment in the affluent democracies, Hollander makes the case that the essential prerequisite for sustainability is a global transition from poverty to affluence, coupled with a transition to freedom and democracy.

The Real Environmental Crisis takes a close look at the major environment and resource issues—population growth; climate change; agriculture and food supply; our fisheries, forests, and fossil fuels; water and air quality; and solar and nuclear power. In each case, Hollander finds compelling evidence that economic development and technological advances can relieve such problems as food shortages, deforestation, air pollution, and land degradation, and provide clean water, adequate energy supplies, and improved public health. The book also tackles issues such as global warming, genetically modified foods, automobile and transportation technologies, and the highly significant Endangered Species Act, which Hollander asserts never would have been legislated in a poor country whose citizens struggle just to survive.

Hollander asks us to look beyond the media's doomsday rhetoric about the state of the environment, for much of it is simply not true, and to commit much more of our resources where they will do the most good—to lifting the world's population out of poverty.

Informazioni sull'autore

Jack M. Hollander is Professor Emeritus of Energy and Resources at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author and editor of more than one hundred research publications and twenty books, including The Energy-Environment Connection (1992).