Critical Masses: The Global Population Challenge

By George D. Moffett

Book Overview

Every day, the human family grows by a quarter of a million people, many of them born into the very countries that can least afford to provide them with jobs, housing, and nutrition, and that are least able to prevent the environmental degradation that rapid population growth can produce. Award-winning journalist and scholar George D. Moffett has traveled around the world to meet the people who confront the daily reality of the rising numbers - farmers in Kenya, squatters in the slums of Cairo, woman entrepreneurs in Bangladesh, relief workers, holy men, economists, diplomats. History, survey, and policy guide, Critical Masses serves to give warning but also provides a positive presecription for change.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140232265
• ISBN13: 9780140232264
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

A must-read for urbanites and suburbanites!

Dr. Moffett makes some compelling points about global population and political policy that are far too critical to ignore. The book has quite an interesting forecast - reading the book in hindsight makes you wonder what happened to the people interviewed, though it's fairly easy to see what happened to the cities profiled. Anyone who lives in an urban or suburban area should definitely read this book, especially those who think politics aren't influencing global population issues.