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State of the World 2001: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Towards a Sustainable Society
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Product Description
The most difficult challenge the world faces is: how to build an environmentally sustainable economy before we do permanent damage to the natural systems that support our global civilization. From the thinning of the Arctic sea ice to the invasion of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, "State of the World 2001" shows how the economic boom of the 1990s has damaged natural systems. The increasingly visible evidence of environmental deterioration is only the tip of a much more dangerous problem: the growing inequities in wealth and income between countries and within countries, inequities that will generate enormous social unrest and pressure for change. The award-winning researchers of the Worldwatch Institute argue that to solve the earth's environmental problems, we must simultaneously address the problems of the world's poor peoples. The book demonstrates that there are ways of rapidly improving the environment and meeting the material needs of the 6 billion individuals on earth. More than 10 million people have already benefited from small loans from micro-credit programmes like those pioneered by the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and BancSol in Bolivia, and farmers in developing countries are converting to organic agriculture to grow organic foods for export to industrial countries.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1084971 in Books
- Published on: 2001-02-20
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 275 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
"'The environmentalist's bible' Times Higher Educational Supplement; 'Essential reading' The Good Book Guide"
The Good Book Guide
Essential reading
From the Publisher
'This book is better than anything else around… an impressive catalogue of information and analysis.'
TIMES HIGER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT
'Essential reading.'
THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE
‘Massive inequalities of wealth, debt burdens, fresh water pollution, persistent hunger for over one billion people, and the need for new fuel sources and means of transport are each described in a tidy, fact-filled chapter.’
THE ECONOMIST
