by Alan Weisman · Little, Brown · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781408702666
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«Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?» is Alan Weisman's environmental essay published by Little, Brown in paperback (528 pages, in English).
Alan Weisman travels to more than twenty countries and talks with specialists in demography, ecology, economics and leaders of different religions to try to answer how many humans the planet can hold. He proposes reducing the number of inhabitants in an agreed and non-violent way and designing an economy detached from permanent growth, in order to stop destroying species, including our own.
Winner of the 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the science and technology category.
Recommended for students and professionals in social sciences, as well as for readers interested in the environment, sustainability and demography.
Alan H. Weisman is an American author, professor and journalist.
