Wherever we look, population is the driver of the most toxic issues on the political agenda. But the population bomb is being defused. Half the world's women are having two children or fewer. Within a generation, the world's population will be falling. And we will all be getting very old.
So should we welcome the return to centre stage of the tribal elders? Or is humanity facing a fate worse than environmental apocalypse?
Brilliant, heretical and accessible to all, Fred Pearce takes on the matter that is fundamental to who we are and how we live, confronting our demographic demons.
- ISBN10 190581139X
- ISBN13 9781905811397
- Publish Date 3 February 2011 (first published 23 February 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Eden Project Books
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 352
- Language English