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Losing ground : environmental stress and world food prospects /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Norton, c1976.Edition: 1st edDescription: 223 pISBN:
  • 0393064107.
  • 0393091678
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.7'5 ECK
LOC classification:
  • S589.7 .E23 1976
Summary: Current discussion of the environmental crisis often centers on the pollution problems of the industrial world. The author calls for massive tree-planting campaigns, agricultural reforms to benefit peasant farmers, and a slowdown in world population growth. He predicts that, unless there is a major shift in global political priorities, a third of mankind will become mired in hopeless destitution, a tragedy with ominous implications for world order.
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Monograph & others Monograph & others CBN HQ Library General Stacks Non-fiction 333.7'5 ECK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31008100118195

Includes bibliographical references: p. [203]-219 and index.

Current discussion of the environmental crisis often centers on the pollution problems of the industrial world. The author calls for massive tree-planting campaigns, agricultural reforms to benefit peasant farmers, and a slowdown in world population growth. He predicts that, unless there is a major shift in global political priorities, a third of mankind will become mired in hopeless destitution, a tragedy with ominous implications for world order.

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