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A new book provides a provocative interpretation of the status of human progress in the twenty-first century.
In our zeal to improve the conditions of the less-well-off, we should not imperil the engine of economic growth that lifts all of us, rich and poor alike, to a higher standard of living.
According to Jack M. Hollander's book
The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment’s Number One Enemy (University of California Press, April 2003), our most critical environmental problem is global poverty. Hollander challenges the widely held belief that economic development and affluence pose a major...
Jack M. Hollander makes the case that the essential prerequisite for sustainability is a global transition from poverty to affluence, coupled with a transition to freedom and democracy.
This bookoffers the first in-depth analysis of the spiritual and social crisis that has been spawned by the new economy and new technologies.
The 2008 Index concentrates on energy and environmental linkages among the leading developed and developing nations.
Obama's speech in Berlinwas inspirational, but if anything will be learned from the Bush administration, it is that leadership must run deeper than rhetoric.
So what"s it going to be: Al Gore"s prosperity for all or George W. Bush"s prosperity with a purpose? In truth, the American people have opted for neither.
