Global Ecology: Readings Toward a Rational Strategy for ManJohn P. Holdren, Paul R. Ehrlich Elements of an ecological revolution; Resource realities; Environmental roulette; Threatened species, technological circuses, and other scandals; Psycho-social complications; Prospects for a sane economics; Toward a population policy; What we must do, and the cost of failure. |
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INTRODUCTION Elements of an Ecological Revolution | 1 |
PART ONE Resource Realities | 7 |
Population Food Supply and Economic Development | 23 |
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