Common sense about a starving world / by Ritchie Calder.
Material type: TextSeries: The common sense seriesPublication details: New York, Macmillan, 1962.Description: 176 pages ; 22cmSubject(s): LOC classification:- HD 9000.5 .R56 1962b
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Includes bibliographical references (page 171) and index.
I. I'm all right, Jack -- II. Be fruitful and multiply -- III. The family estate -- IV. Too many people on the land -- V. An epidemic of children -- VI. The good Earth -- VII. Another man's poison VIII. Rivals for survival -- IX. The politics of hunger
"The present volume deals with what, next to facing possible nuclear destruction, is the most desperate problem confronting mankind. By 1980 the world's population will be 4,000,000,0000, inescapably. This pressure on the available food supplies is fraught with danger for everyone, not only for those countries that we call 'overpopulated' or 'underdeveloped.' The author argues that the world has always been "overpopulated" since the capacity of man to produce food has depended (and still does) upon his ability to control his environment. His book answers both the "Doomsday" men and those who recklessly believe that the population need not be inhabited because, they claim, the resources of the earth will be met with increase, whatever it may be. The figures are not what matters; it is the rate of increase and the time factor involved" - Dust jacket stapled to cover
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