Paul R. Ehrlich
In this compelling book we are shown the destructive folly of humanity's insatiable appetite for bigger and bigger homes, and for second and third homes, a largely unrecognized factor in the human environmental predicament. Regardless of the negative impact on our life-support systems, too many of us view the home not as a comfortable necessity of life but as a symbol of our status and success. On every page of this book, however, we learn the terrible consequences for our future if this symbiosis of individual vanity and short-term, short-sighted government policy is not interrupted. These authors, descendants of Cassandra, are ignored at our peril.
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In this compelling book we are shown the destructive folly of humanity's insatiable appetite for bigger and bigger homes, and for second and third homes, a largely unrecognized factor in the human environmental predicament. Regardless of the negative impact on our life-support systems, too many of us view the home not as a comfortable necessity of life but as a symbol of our status and success. On every page of this book, however, we learn the terrible consequences for our future if this symbiosis of individual vanity and short-term, short-sighted government policy is not interrupted. These authors, descendants of Cassandra, are ignored at our peril.—Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University, author of The Population Bomb
The Housing Bomb manages to very effectively and efficiently describe, explain, and suggest solutions for the global, massive explosion in independent households which threatens our natural environment, our survival.—Lisa D. Pearce, University of North Carolina
Lisa D. Pearce
The Housing Bomb manages to very effectively and efficiently describe, explain, and suggest solutions for the global, massive explosion in independent households which threatens our natural environment, our survival.
