Selection 36 Summary

The article The Population Explosion Why we Should Care and What We Should Do About It by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Erlich explains that our future is in jeopardy if our population grows at its current rate. It explains further that the rising population isn't the only problem. It's also the increasing strain on the environment to fuel our resource intensive lives. The I=PAT equation has been created to try to quantify Environmental degradation. It takes account of the population, technologies and Affluence per capita. It then questions what would be the best human population size and what steps should be taken to reach it. All the components of the I=PAT must be reduced or we will face a future of lower quality of living.

Paul Ehrlich, Anne Ehrlich. The Population Explosion Why we Should Care And What We Should Do About It. Environmental Law,1997