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The Real Population Bomb
P.H. Liotta
Megacities, Global Security & the Map of the Future
Potomac Books
February 2012
On Sale: February 1, 2012
264 pages
ISBN: 1597975516
EAN: 9781597975513
Kindle: B007PQ9594
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Non-Fiction Political
Shocking in description and crammed with detail, this book
is about where and how geopolitics plays out in the
twenty-first century. Drawing on the authors’ three decades
of international field work and seasoned policy analysis,
The Real Population Bomb hits like a pile driver. Its
essential truths can no longer be ignored: we have never
been here before in human history. The choices we make in
this next decade will determine the fate of human societies. By 2025, twenty-seven cities will have populations greater
than ten million and over six hundred cities will have
populations greater than one million. Specific mega cities,
intimately connected to globalization, are posing huge
security challenges—now. Liotta and Miskel focus intensely
on effects these massive, under-served, and under-governed
cities have on international stability, human security, and
environmental degradation, and offer strategies and
solutions for mitigating those effects. Their stark, often stunning, portraits of major urban
centers in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America
illuminate how mega city Leviathans are redrawing the map of
the future—in ways that affect us all. You may not agree with this book’s message. But it will
prove difficult to forget.
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