7 Billion

✍ Scribed by Geographic, National

• Book ID: 109489150
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 97 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781426209420

✦ Synopsis

Sometime in late October 2011, the 7 millionth citizen of planet Earth will be born. To mark the event, National Geographic magazine commissioned seven articles that explore the fascinating issues--including demographics, food security, climate change, fertility trends, managing biodiversity--surrounding this topic, which are collected for the first time in this special ebook.

Envi­ronment editor Robert Kunzig starts by sketching out a natural history of population. The issues associated with population growth seem endless: poverty, food and water supply, world health, climate change, deforestation, fertility rates, and more. In additional chapters Elizabeth Kolbert explores a new era--the "Anthropocene," or the age of man--defined by our massive impact on the planet, which will endure long after our cities have crumbled; and takes us to the Mediterranean, where she delves into issues associated with increasing ocean acidification. In Bangladesh, Don Belt...