Contents

Cover

Title Page

Welcome

Dedication

Epigraph

Author’s Note

PART ONE

Chapter 1: A Weary Land of Four Questions

Chapter 2: A World Bursting Its Seams

Chapter 3: Body Counts and the Paradox of Food

Chapter 4: Carrying Capacity and the Cradle

PART TWO

Chapter 5: Island World

Chapter 6: Holy See

Chapter 7: Gorillas in Our Midst

Chapter 8: The Great Wall of People

PART THREE

Chapter 9: The Sea

Chapter 10: The Bottom

Chapter 11: The World Unraveling

Chapter 12: The Ayatollah Giveth and Taketh Away

PART FOUR

Chapter 13: Shrink and Prosper

Chapter 14: Tomorrow

Chapter 15: Safe Sex

PART FIVE

Chapter 16: Parkland Earth

Chapter 17: The World With Fewer of Us

Author’s Epilogue

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Alan Weisman

Bibliography

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