Are we up to the task? "The science of human sustenance is inherently a social science. Neither physics nor chemistry nor even biology is adequate to understand how it has been possible for one species to reshape both its own future and the destiny of an entire planet." - Associate Professor Erle C. Ellis, an expert in long-term changes in land use and biogeochemistry at the University of Maryland, in a New York Times column published September 13, entitled, "Overpopulation Is Not the Problem. Ellis argues that a growing world population of many billions can be readily sustained "as long as necessary investments in infrastructure and conducive trade, anti-poverty and food security policies are in place."
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:57:13 +0000
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