The Juggernaut: Growth on a Finite Planet [Hardcover]

Lindsey Grant (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1996

Lindsey Grant examines the human condition as population and consumption levels approach the edges of the Earth's ability to support them. The book is a unique synopsis of the interactions among population, food production, the energy transition, air pollution and climate change, technology, trade polices, productivity and unemployment. It describes the different ways that the current population explosion plays out in the poorest countries, the "emerging" countries, and the old industrial nations- and shows how they will shape each other's future. It relates that growth to U.S. policies on foreign affairs, agriculture, trade, immigration, unemployment, population and health care, and proposes some specific changes in thinking and policies.

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Amazon.com Review

Most of us have wondered how long the earth can continue to support humans. We see or read of oil spills, overpopulation, air pollution, and global warming, yet we persist in a "wait and see" attitude toward healing the planet. Grant's excellent and practical analysis shows how these issues are shaped by the politics of emerging and industrial nations and predicts what effects such issues will have upon the new century. This is an important study of the vast implications of continued population growth and the need for global policies. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 305 pages
• Publisher: Seven Locks Press; First Edition edition (August 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0929765494
• ISBN-13: 978-0929765495
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,083,768 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I highly recommend this thorough and sanely provocative book, June 9, 1999

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Luke Seerveld (San Carlos, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Juggernaut: Growth on a Finite Planet (Paperback)

Lindsey Grant speaks with a calm and authoritative voice in this text that comprehensively shows the interelatedness of most of our world's and our nation's difficult problems which have at their source our unwillingness to confront the issue of population.

If you don't understand how population has anything to do with our world's environmental, water, food, power or crowding issues, this book will make you wonder no longer.

The author argues his points so persuasively that the reader cannot help but realize the truth: if we do not act now to reverse population growth in developed, developing and undeveloped nations, no amount of technological breakthroughs or conservation efforts will save us from ourselves. We will, simply through sheer numbers, consume ourselves to death.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seeing how the population problem fits into the big picture, December 28, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Juggernaut: Growth on a Finite Planet (Hardcover)

This is a wonderful book full of fascinating insights. It shows how our exploding population growth fits into the big piture. How it is affected by politcs, business, attitudes, technology, customs, etc., and how it in turn affects them. It has broadend my thinking on the subject, making me aware of many interrealtionships I had not thought of before. It should be read by all policy makers, and in a democracy like ours, by every one who has the capacity to understand the problem.