How Many People Can the Earth Support?

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How Many People Can the Earth Support?
Joel E. Cohen
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How Many People Can the Earth Support?

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This book's seventeen chapters offer readers an overview of humanity's demographic past, present, and near term population futures, with special attention paid to the challenges and implications that our current trajectories pose. Excerpt: "...the size and speed of growth of the human population today have no precedents in all the Earth's history before the last half of the twentieth century..." -- "...today's rapid relative and absolute increase in population stretches the productive, absorptive, and recuperative capacities of the Earth...."

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First Sentence

""Shortly before 1600 B.C., a junior scribe in what is now Iraq transcribed on three clay tablets a Babylonian history of humankind.""

Table of Contents

Between Choices and Constraints
Four Evolutions of Population Growth
People Control the Growth of Nonhuman Populations
People Control the Growth of Human Populations
Human Population History in Numbers and Graphs
The Uniqueness of the Present Relative to the Past
Projection Methods: The Hazy Crystal Ball
Scenarios of Future Populations
What Do We Know for Surve about the Future of Global Population?

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Non-fiction, World Affairs, Population

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OL13522680M

First Sentence

""Shortly before 1600 B.C., a junior scribe in what is now Iraq transcribed on three clay tablets a Babylonian history of humankind.""

Work Description

Past attempts to answer this question have ranged widelyfrom less than 1 billion to more than 1,000 billion - one sign that there is no single right answer. More than half of the estimates, however, fall within a much narrower range: between 4 billion and 16 billion.

In any case, with the world population now at 5.7 billion, and increasing by approximately 90 million per year, we have clearly entered a zone where limits on the human carrying capacity of the Earth have been anticipated, and may well be encountered.

In this penetrating analysis of one of the most crucial questions of our time, a leading scholar in the field reviews the history of world population growth and gives a refreshingly frank appraisal of what little can be known about its future. In the process, he offers the most comprehensive account yet available of how various people have tried to estimate the planet's human carrying capacity.

Few contemporary writers have addressed the issue of world population growth in such a balanced, objective way, without using it as a pretext to advance a prior political agenda.

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