From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security revisits the findings of "The global 2000 report to the president" -- commissioned by President Jimmy Carter and released in 1980 -- and presents an up-to-date over-view, informed by the earlier projections, of such critical topics as population, water, food, energy, climate change, deforestation, and biodiversity. It examines current environmental trends in order to consider the state of the global ...