This is a handbook on the perils of population growth, both U.S and global. The author backs up his thesis with accurate information on how and why continuing population growth and economic growth are not sustainable, and the process must be reversed. Unrelenting growth is absurd, and underlies many of the problems we now face throughout the world.
The author describes our imperiled agriculture, the threat to clean water, the supply of animal proteins, climate change problems, pollution and energy. He uses Europe as an example of how lowering population numbers could help those countries survive. He warns Americans they must learn to cooperate with each other to manage their own fertility problems and migration policies, as well as to help poor countries. Present policies will turn the U.S. into “a poor country without having helped those who are already poor.”
This is a short (100 page) powerful book on the dangers of population growth. There is so much easily digestible information that is valuable to have on hand for discussions. It is a bargain at $12.95 hard cover and $7.95 paperback.
Lindsey Grant is a retired Foreign Service Officer, a former staffer for the National Security Council, Department of State Policy Planning, and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment and Population Affairs. Earlier books include How Many Americans?, Elephants in the Volkswagen (a U.S. population study) and Juggernaut: Growth on a Finite Planet. He also has written many articles on population and growth. Too Many People is available through bookstores, the publisher (Seven Locks Press, P.O. 25689, Santa Ana, CA, 92799, 1-800-354-5348), or through Negative Population Growth (www.npg.org).
— by Carol Joyal
