The Population Explosion by Paul R. Ehrlich

She has been placed on the United Nations' Global 500 Roll of Honour and is an Honorary Life Member of the American Humanist Society. Government's Global 2000 Report and chairs the Sierra Club's Committee on the Environmental Impacts of Warfare. She is author of The End of Affluence, Extinction, and Earth, as well as numerous articles on issues of population, resources, and environment.

Ehrlich is a Senior Research Associate in Biological Sciences at Stanford University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and current president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences his many honors include the first Science in the Service of Humankind prize, awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1989.Īnne H. An expert in ecology, human ecology, evolution, and behavior, he has published several hundred scientific papers and a series of textbooks in these fields. Ehrlich is Bing Professor of Population Studies and Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University. If every candidate for public office were to read and understand this book, we would all live in a more peaceful, sane and secure world.' The Ehrlichs have written the prescription. 'The time for action is due, and past due. For the first time, our numbers threaten the ecological system that supports life as we know it. Senator Albert Gore, Jr., says, 'Paul and Anne Ehrlich point out that humankind has entered into a brand-new relationship with Planet Earth.

And overpopulation in rich countries such as the United States and other industrialized nations is, in important ways, more serious than rapid population growth in poor countries. The Population Explosion argues that unprecedented overpopulation is substantially contributing to problems as diverse as African famine, global warming, acid rain, air and water pollution, the garbage crisis, even epidemics such as AIDS. We are supporting the current level of overpopulation only by depleting resources that were created over millions of years-fertile topsoils, ice-age groundwater, and other organisms that are working parts of our life-support systems. Today the population is 5.3 billion people, and growing by 95 million a year. When Paul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb in 1968, the population of Earth was 3.5 billion people.

The Population Explosion by Paul R. Ehrlich