Teaching Global Poverty in the Classroom
Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 book The Population Bomb (Random House, reprinted hardcover 2000) first predicted massive, worldwide hunger and starvation. It was considered alarmist. Yet today 5% of the world’s population consumes 24% of the world’s energy and an estimated 24,000 children die each day due to acute poverty. (Global Issues). […]
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