Author: David Pimentel
David Pimentel is a professor of ecology and agricultural science at Cornell University. He has published more than six hundred scientific papers and twenty-eight books and has served on many national and government committees.
The Real Perils of Human Population Growth
About forty years ago, the world population was only 3.5 billion, or about half of the present population of 6.7 billion people. Most of us seem to ignore or be unaware of the magnitude of this rapid expansion and the vast changes that it is causing throughout the world. Indeed, the daily and even the …