Food, Energy, and Society

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• January 1, 1996
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Food, Energy, and Society

by David and Marcia Pimentel, Editors University Press of Colorado, 1996, Revised Edition. Hardback.

Food, Energy, and Society provides a detailed evaluation of the link between two of the greatest problems we face today – uncontrolled population growth and the destruction of our various life-supporting systems – food, land, water, and energy. Editors David and Marcia Pimentel suggest global population be drastically reduced from the current 6 billion to about 2 billion. Without such a change, the Pimentels ask the inevitable question – how can everyone be fed, given the limited and declining resources of our environment?