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Examines world population rates, offering analyses of what the population will be fifty, one hundred, and three hundred years from now and arguing that homelessness, malnutrition, and overcrowding are problems that need to be addressed today before they become unsolvable.
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When is it acceptable to end your own life? With the rising threat of overpopulation on Earth in the future, see what the 1970s film Soylent Green offers as a solution to dwindling space and resources. Also, consider other ways societies, in both science fiction and the real world, tackle the moral issues of euthanasia (both self-chosen and coerced) and population control.
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Demographers anticipate that the human population will increase to 10 billion people sometime before the year 2050. Can we feed, clothe, house, and find jobs for this many people? At the same time, can we protect remaining habitats to ensure global diversity of life, a key to human survival? The problems are already significant. Human developments are gobbling up key natural resources, destroying ecosystems, and reducing the amount of agricultural...
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Population Growth, discusses how people manage the population explosion, improve healthcare, empower women, distribute resources, and limit population growth. Additional features include: a table of contents, glossary, index, color photographs, maps, charts, and graphs, quotations from environmental experts, case studies, and websites for further exploration.
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"[Rapid growth in] the world's population has . . . strained natural resources, increased pollution, and harmed many plants and animals. This book examines demography around the world, covering immigration, refugees, urbanization, poverty, trade, and access to water and food. Controversial issues such as eugenics and abortion are also discussed in terms of their impact on population and birth rates, providing readers with various perspectives to critique...
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"Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment...
15) Critical Mass
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Things aren't looking too good for the world's population; as we multiply at an alarming rate there is not enough food, space or sense. With the planet bursting at the seams, the intelligence and physiological traits that make us human are now crucial to mankind's survival. This intelligent film interweaves a 1960s rat experiment with a snapshot of today's urban jungle and a number of disturbing parallels emerge.
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"A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add humans back to this vision of a restored, healthy planet-only...
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This book explains that population pressures have contributed to Africa's poverty but also examines other contributing factors, such as changes in climate, rapid urbanization, poor governance, and the exodus of talented people thereby forestalling a strong entrepreneurial class.
20) Food insecurity
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Presents differing viewpoints on the issues of food insecurity.