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How Many People Can the Earth Support?
Joel E. Cohen
W. W. Norton
October 1995
On Sale: October 6, 1995
542 pages ISBN: 0393314952 EAN: 9780393314953 Trade Size (reprint)
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A compelling new analysis of world population issues and
what the numbers tell us. . . . "A gem of a book."--New York
Times Book Review 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. "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 "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, in the New York Times Book Review "A probing, scholarly analysis of the population issue in
all its complexity. . . . An enduring resource
book."--Thomas E. Lovejoy, Smithsonian Institution
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