Description

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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.

About the Author

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George D. Moffett, Ph.D., is a diplomatic correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, and has previously served as its Middle East bureau chief. He co-authored and edited a Monitor series on global population that was awarded a Global Media Award by the Population Institute in 1993. He is the author of The Limits of Victory: The Ratification of the Panama Canal Treaties and Critical Masses: The Global Population Challenge.

Praise For…

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"Illuminates the population problem in poor nations in terms of real people rather than just large numbers.… A book to read, enjoy, and learn from."
—Paul R. Ehrlich, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Vividly conveys the population-driven environmental, social, political, and economic disintegration that is occurring worldwide"
—Scientific American

"Brings into stark relief the effects of over-population on the lives of real people."
—Publisher's Weekly