Re: APS population/hunger resolution -Reply

Molly Anderson (manderso@emerald.tufts.edu)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:02:47 -0400 (EDT)

The tension between countries with rapid population growth and countries
with excessive resource use is long-standing, but seems to be getting much
worse over the last few years. Global warming, with its disproportionate
costs to poor countries and disproportionate benefits to rich countries,
certainly isn't helping the situation.

Bill McKibben wrote a good introduction to these problems in the May
Atlantic Monthly, "A Special Moment in History" (pp. 55-78). He pulled
together a lot of the evidence available which points toward the urgent
need for reductions in our (US) consumption rates, and summarized it in
simple, eloquent prose. Sure, he selected the information which supported
his argument. But I'm very glad to see that argument getting mainstream
media play. We are risking a tremendous amount if the conservative
argument to continue "business as usual" in industrialized countries
without heeding the global consequences is flawed.

Molly Anderson
Center on Agriculture, Food and Environment
School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155

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