The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, is the Environment's Number One Enemy FROM THE PUBLISHER
The Real Environmental Crisis takes a close look at the major environmental 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. Hollander finds compelling evidence that economic development and technological advances can relieve such problems as food shortages, deforestation, air pollution, and land degradation, and can 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 passed in a poor country whose citizens struggle just to survive.
SYNOPSIS
In this highly controversial book, Hollander argues that , contrary to conventional environmental wisdom, it is not affluece, with its high resource use, that causes environmental degradation, but poverty. With affluence, he maintains, come education, lower birth rates, an interest in conservation, and the technology to solve environmental problems.
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