How Many People Can the Earth Support - by Joel E Cohen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>/COHEN A compelling new analysis of world population, this penetrating assessment of one of the most crucial issues of our time reviews the history of world popluation growth and appraises that can be known about its future. "The definitive work on the global population problem".--Edward O. Wilson. Excerpts in The Sciences and Dis<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>With the world population now at 5.7 billion, and increasing by about 90 million per year, we have clearly entered a zone where we can see, and may well encounter, limits on the human carrying capacity of the Earth. In this penetrating analysis of one of the most crucial questions of our time, a leading scholar in the field reviews the history of world population growth and appraises what can be known about its future.<br /><br /><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>It would be hard to conceive of a better book for those interested in a scholarly and nonideological review and analysis of population issues. . . . Fascinating and lucid. . . . A gem of a book.--William D. Nordhaus, Yale University "New York Times Book Review"<br><br>A probing, scholarly analysis of the population issue in all its complexity. . . . An enduring resource book.--Thomas E. Lovejoy, Smithsonian Institution<br><br>The definitive work on the global population problem. Cohen, one of the foremost theoretical biologists in the world, has brought extraordinary analytic powers and humanitarian learning to the topic, and those who care about the human future will do well to read his conclusions.--Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University<br>
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