The Stork and the Plow
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The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma
Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Gretchen C. Daily
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“This ambitious, enlightened handbook is a cornucopia of strategies and ideas for concerned citizens and policymakers.”—Publishers Weekly
“Give equal education and power to women throughout the world, argue the authors: when that happens, birth rates fall and food supplies go up.”—San Francisco Chronicle (Best Bets of 1995)
“[The book] can help us understand the past and possible future of the meals most Westerners take for granted.”—Bill McKibben, New York Review of Books
“A well-reasoned account of how poverty forces unsustainable use of natural resources . . . a careful and balanced treatment of developments in agriculture . . . that may help food production to stay ahead of population growth.”—Basia Zaba, Nature
“This generation faces a set of challenges unprecedented in their scope and severity and in the shortness of time left to resolve them. . . . The Stork and the Plow sets these out thoughtfully [and] accurately. . . . We can all hope this urgent message is carefully heeded.”—Henry W. Kendall, Nobel laureate and Julius A. Stratton Professor of Physics, MIT
“A wonderful piece of work.”—Partha Dasgupta, American Scientist
"This ambitious, enlightened handbook is a cornucopia of strategies and ideas for concerned citizens and policymakers."—Publishers Weekly
"Give equal education and power to women throughout the world, argue the authors: when that happens, birth rates fall and food supplies go up."—San Francisco Chronicle (Best Bets of 1995)
"[The book] can help us understand the past and possible future of the meals most Westerners take for granted."—Bill McKibben, New York Review of Books
"A well-reasoned account of how poverty forces unsustainable use of natural resources . . . a careful and balanced treatment of developments in agriculture . . . that may help food production to stay ahead of population growth."—Basia Zaba, Nature
"This generation faces a set of challenges unprecedented in their scope and severity and in the shortness of time left to resolve them. . . . The Stork and the Plow sets these out thoughtfully [and] accurately. . . . We can all hope this urgent message is carefully heeded."—Henry W. Kendall, Nobel laureate and Julius A. Stratton Professor of Physics, MIT
"What the authors establish is the need for greater equality, allied to a lowering of global economic activities of the kind we are currently engaged in. This they do by giving us an account of the links that we currently know to exist between poverty, population growth and environmental degradation, and by offering us an agenda for further inquiry. It is a wonderful piece of work."—Partha Dasgupta, American Scientist
"The Stork and the Plow defines the cultural, social and biological problems we face today and the issues we will encounter in the future. The book demands that we change our attitudes and alter our standards of living in order to reduce and lower our impacts on the environment."—Jim A. Merickel, The Mining Company
Publication Date: September 23, 1997
