The Real Environmental Crisis
Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19912810 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J M Hollander (corresponding author), Jack Hollander |
| Year | 2003 |
| Pages | 251 |
| Publication date | 2003-04-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Real Environmental Crisis (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/9780520938403 |
| OpenAlex | W1546140782 |
| ISBN | 9780520938403 |
| Open Library | OL29608214M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
Drawing a completely new road map toward a sustainable future, Jack M. Hollander contends that our most critical environmental problem is global poverty. His balanced, authoritative, and lucid book challenges widely held beliefs that economic development and affluence pose a major threat to the world's environment and resources. Pointing to the great strides that have been made toward improving and protecting the environment in the affluent democracies, Hollander makes the case that the essential prerequisite for sustainability is a global transition from poverty to affluence, coupled with a transition to freedom and democracy. The Real Environmental Crisis takes a close look at the major environment and resource issues—population growth; climate change; agriculture and food supply; our fisheries, forests, and fossil fuels; water and air quality; and solar and nuclear power. In each case, Hollander finds compelling evidence that economic development and technological advances can relieve such problems as food shortages, deforestation, air pollution, and land degradation, and provide clean water, adequate energy supplies, and improved public health. The book also tackles issues such as global warming, genetically modified foods, automobile and transportation technologies, and the highly significant Endangered Species Act, which Hollander asserts never would have been legislated in a poor country whose citizens struggle just to survive. Hollander asks us to look beyond the media's doomsday rhetoric about the state of the environment, for much of it is simply not true, and to commit much more of our resources where they will do the most good—to lifting the world's population out of poverty
Climate change · Earth (classical element) · Environmental ethics · Environmental protection · Epistemology · Fish · Fish <Actinopterygii> · Fishery · Fossil fuel · Global warming · Harm · Index (typography) · Oil spill · Pessimism · Physics · Political science · Waste management · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Computer Science · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Engineering · Environmental Science · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · Geology · History · Law · Oceanography · Philosophy · Economic aspects · Environmental degradation · Environmental policy · Environmental policy, economic aspects · Poverty · Sustainable development
Economic prosperity, biodiversity conservation, and the environmental Kuznets curve
The Jevons Paradox and Anthropogenic Global Warming
The influence of water, land, energy and soil-nutrient resource interactions on the food system in Uganda
Environmental Consequences of the Transformation of the Sectoral Structure of the Economy of Russian Regions and Cities in the Post-Soviet Period
Regional Projection of Environmental Consequences of Crises in the Russian Economy
Environmental justice and conceptions of the green economy
Narrating Green Economies in the Global South
Renewable energy and poverty–environment nexus in developing countries
Climate Change Denial and Public Relations
Sustainable Development
Exploring the potential impacts of tourism development on social and ecological change in the Solomon Islands
Does Economic Growth Cause Environmental Recovery? Geographical Explanations of Forest Regrowth
Na encruzilhada entre “emancipação” e dominação
| Citations per year | 0.59 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2022 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |