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Science 13 August 2004:
Vol. 305. no. 5686, p. 947
DOI: 10.1126/science.1100976
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ENVIRONMENT:
Our Once and Future Fate

A review by Ann Kinzig

One with Nineveh Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future
by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich
Island Press, Washington, DC, 2004. 459 pp. $27. ISBN 1-55963-879-6.

Paying particular attention to three crucial factors--increasing human population, rising consumption, and accelerating political and economic inequity--that threaten Earth's ability to sustain us, the authors explore some avenues that hold hopes for reversing current trends.
The reviewer is in the School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. E-mail: kinzig{at}asu.edu

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