"Joseph L. Daleiden analyzes the critical and unresolved problems that the United States faces entering the twenty-first century. These include population growth, environmental destruction (especially depletion and pollution of underground water supplies); the national debt (and seven other "debts"); poverty; crime; interethnic conflict; education; and the need to reform health care, Social Security, and taxes. Daleiden demonstrates that since the issues are interrelated, the solutions must be interrelated as well."--BOOK JACKET.