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

Hollander, Jack M.

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

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.

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Title of ebook: The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy
ISBN: 9780520900899
Publisher: University of California Press
Internet download file size: 1082 kb
Released online for download: 03-01-2003
Author of eBook: Hollander, Jack M.

The Real Environmental Crisis

Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy

Chapter One

A World Apart

Nearly everyone cares about the environment. But what exactly is "the environment"? That depends on how and where you live. If you are an American, you may occasionally ponder the media's claims that last year's hot summer was a precursor of catastrophic global warming, but in any case you probably perceive such environmental scenarios as somewhat esoteric and remote from your daily life. If you are a welder in a Chinese bicycle factory, in contrast, you are fully aware of the serious water and air pollution that China's rapid industrialization has brought to your region, but you probably accept the pollution with forbearance because the bicycle factory provides a steady job that enables you to support your family. Yet if you are a subsistence farmer i ... read full excerpt from The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy ebook


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