How Many Americans - Softcover

Bouvier, Leon F.; Grant, Lindsey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871563851 ISBN 13: 9780871563859

Publisher: Sierra Club Books, 1995

Synopsis

Assesses the impact of immigration on the environment, and argues for less immigration and behavioral changes to minimize environmental harm

About this title

From the Publisher:

"This book asks questions long overdue. Do we want 400 million Americans? Fifty million Californians? If 'all great truths begin as heresy,' this is a hereticalbut desperately important -book."--Richard D. Lamm, former governor of Colorado.

From the Back Cover:

"Bouvier and Grant are absolutely right: population is the big issue -- indeed, it is the most crucial problem facing the world today. There will be no hope for air quality, clean water, revitalized cities, or for addressing the host of other environmental ills confronting our nation unless we address the issues so plainly and powerfully laid out in How Many Americans? No one with hope for the future can afford to ignore this book."

-- Anthony C. Beilenson, Co-Chair, Congressional Coalition on Population and Development

"Leon Bouvier and Lindsey Grant courageously tackle conventional misconceptions about population and its consequences. Their rich data are presented with clarity and understanding that make reading a pleasure. The authors show how we can indeed 'think globally and act locally,' as we reconcile population demands with environmental limitations."

-- Garrrett Hardin, Author of Living Within Limits

"The future is unbearably grim unless corrective measures are now taken, largely in the form of sharply reducing current legal immigration levels (now about a million a year), while taking strong steps for bringing illegal immigration to a halt.... How Many Americans? has several distinctive attributes, aside from its important message: it is well written, well organized, commendably succinct, and above all, concludes with positive, specific solutions."

-- Marshall Green, Former Assistant Secretary of State and Chair, National Security Council Task Force on Population

About this edition

• Publisher: Sierra Club Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0871563851
• ISBN 13: 9780871563859
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174
• Editor: Ras B.