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Cargando... The Stork and the Plowpor Paul R. Ehrlich, Gretchen C. Daily, Anne H. Ehrlich
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The authors are concerned about overpopulation, and this book is a look at the problem of whether the agriculture industry can keep up with the exploding populations around the world. Overall, it's a decent look at the problem, though some of the things they were optimistic about in the 1990s have either failed to work out or have not been pursued in the decade since, partially because of political and social resistance to the idea that there could possibly be too many people. The main downside is that the authors, like many others, seem to buy into the idea of the noble savage, and seem to think that all progress has been negative, reducing all who do not farm to the role of "stealing" food. This is, I think, quite a bit too simplistic, and renders all human activity outside of food gathering suspect and worthless. Other than that, the book is well written and frank, and I encourage peopel who are interested in the issue to consider it, with the awareness that some of the information is now out of date; since the issues remain the same, and only the statistics have changed, that probably isn't too serious a downside. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In this provocative book, the authors look at the interaction between population and food supply and offer a powerful and radical strategy for balancing human numbers with nutritional needs. Their proposals include improving the status of women, reducing racism and religious prejudice, reforming the agricultural system, and shrinking the growing gap between rich and poor. "This ambitious, enlightened handbook is a cornucopia of strategies and ideas for concerned citizens and policymakers."--Publishers Weekly "Give equal education and power to women throughout the world, argue the authors: when that happens, birth rates fall and food supplies go up."--San Francisco Chronicle (Best Bets of 1995) "[The book] can help us understand the past and possible future of the meals most Westerners take for granted."--Bill McKibben, New York Review of Books "A well-reasoned account of how poverty forces unsustainable use of natural resources . . . a careful and balanced treatment of developments in agriculture . . . that may help food production to stay ahead of population growth."--Basia Zaba, Nature "This generation faces a set of challenges unprecedented in their scope and severity and in the shortness of time left to resolve them. . . . The Stork and the Plow sets these out thoughtfully [and] accurately. . . . We can all hope this urgent message is carefully heeded."--Henry W. Kendall, Nobel laureate and Julius A. Stratton Professor of Physics, MIT "A wonderful piece of work."--Partha Dasgupta, American Scientist No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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