Poverty and the Planet. A Question of Survival. World Development Movement

London England: Penguin. Paperback. Slight crease to front cover. To the Third World's poor, environmentalism seems an expensive luxury. From the slums and villages of Asia, Africa and Latin America, the First World's burgeoning concern for the environment appears a diversion from the real issues: economic injustive and the exploitation of the world's poor. Yet the poor are often hardest hit by the environmental crisis. Behind famine lies the transformation of forests into deserts and fertile earth into barren wasteland. And behind this devastation lies the harsh political reality of poor people forced to destroy nature just to eat, and of governments pursuing western-back 'development' schemes regardless of the environmental and human cost. Thsi bok explores the solutions to this vicious circle. Examining the problems, from hunger to debt, that keep the Third World poor it rejects short-twrm 'development' that destroys the resources on which the poor's livelihood and lasting economic progress depend. The author of the World Development Movement calls for marrying ecological protection with meeting the desperate needs of the world's poor. 226 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Paperback Edition. 1990.