Global Threats, Global Futures Living with Declining Living Standards

`This impressive study of the progressive impoverishment of the world's resources speaks with the authority of Thayer Scudder's fifty years of experience with international programs for technological development, especially those that involve river basin development and resulting population displacement and resettlement. Case studies from different continents provide the evidence for the likelihood that the majority in future generations will lead more meager lives than their twentieth century ancestors. He points to what has gone wrong in our approach to the world and its resources and to the measures necessary to offset the damage already caused. If only citizens have the political will to adopt them.'---Elizabeth Colson, University of California, Berkeley, USA --