Author: Marcia Pimentel
Marcia Pimentel is senior lecturer in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. She is a nutritionist specializing in foods and nutrition, world food supplies, human ecology, and the environment. She has published more than sixty scientific papers and the following books: Food, Energy and Society (1996) and Dimensions of Food (2006).
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 …