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kimberlywyatt5's review
5.0
I love reading National Geographic. I haven’t thought much about overpopulation and how it will effect the food chain process. I am someone who decided not to have children and I had my tubes removed to make sure. I am all for women/men sterilizing and focusing on careers and adopted pets.
mattycakesbooks's review
4.0
Pretty good, super depressing. Particularly the part about the acidification of the oceans. I don't want to say that's more depressing than the overcrowding of Africa, but it is for me.
cora273's review
1.0
This book was short but seemed long because I thought it was very boring. There were two chapters on the population that focused on the actual number of people, birth rates, etc and I found those chapters very interesting. Based on the title of this book, I thought that was going to be the main focus. The other chapters were varied, one was on geology and another focused on climate change and I think another was basically on plants and agriculture - I didn't find those as interesting. I also didn't realize this book was from 2011 so I'd imagine quite a bit has changed since then. Overall, I wouldn't recommend this book.
ainabarad's review
4.0
Excellent and accurate. I don't believe it quite stressed the severity and urgency of our global situation as well as my college course of BIO 120 Human Ecology has, but this is not an academic text. I highly recommend everyone learn more about human ecology because the future is dire and the timeline short. There were approximately 1 billion people on the earth in 1800, the human population double time is about 45-50 years, 1 species becomes extinct every day, and... we are a K- selected species (slow population growth rate, like monkeys) yet since the Industrial and Medical Revolutions we, as a species, are behaving more like a r- selected species (rapid population growth, like flies).
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