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...most Americans, desertification is not a problem. But for many of the 78 million people who in recent years have had the ground under them turn to dust or sand, there is no easy escape. Washington's Worldwatch Institute estimates that the lives of perhaps 50 million people are jeopardized. As their fields and pastures become no man's lands, the dispossessed add to the tide of ecological refugees who have already swollen the Third World's ranks of unemployed and destitute. Unable to feed themselves, they place new strains on the food supply and create...
Pleasure Principle. In parts of the critically overpopulated Third World, birth rates are also tapering off. "Sometime near the beginning of this decade, the rate of world population growth reached an all-time high and then began to subside," notes Lester Brown, president of WorldWatch Institute, an international research organization. "In 1970 human numbers grew by an estimated 1.90%, an annual increase of 69 million. The most recent data show a marked decline since then, to 1.64%, an increase of 64 million a year...