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The End of Life as We Know It
Overpopulation: 7 Billion People and Counting
"Describes the problems with and possible solutions for overpopulation of the planet"--
160 pages, Library Binding
Published December 30, 2015
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April 4, 2021
“Julian Simon presented a familiar argument on this issue. For one thing he said, a larger population means a greater number of intelligent people in society”
“Boulding pointed out, it was time to think of the world in a new more realistic way. Instead of the endless frontier...we need to think of earth as a spacecraft. When we’ve used up those resources, they were gone forever”
Well the books offers some rather interesting introspective
from the classic Malthus to more contemporaries like Paul enrlich concerning the matter. But the book starts with a sort of hypothetical approach first off with baby Nargis (the 7 billionth baby, there’s no way she was the 7th billion). But at the same time continually delving into the topic as if it was again a hypocritical question by presenting a fictional country categorized as an (LDC). Some history was provided concerning the subject matter, but then continually a pivot to the romanticism notion that technological advances will solve the overpopulation problem. It mentioned some statistics on various parts of the world and their approach’s in the past. Unfortunately the author continues with attempting to portray the real problem of overpopulation as only a hypothetical argument of the Optimist versus the Pessimist debate on futurism, and so their is no positive neutrality or the golden middle way expressed on the subject. In my opinion the author didn’t explain the subject according to reality. The author assumptions knowing nature is already exasperated by climate issues, sociological issues, crime and poverty and technological latencies due to overpopulation suggests that it’s best to leave the fate of the planet to chance because more intelligence people will exist to solve the problems in higher masses ?
The book is really political posing to simply assume the argument of overpopulation is simply a protagonist versus optimist, and that evolution of all life and the preservation of it is indicative to either more people or less when history has proven both otherwise. And clearly offers no positive neutrality for what is the most solution which is a world wide birth ban with equal birth control measures.
“Boulding pointed out, it was time to think of the world in a new more realistic way. Instead of the endless frontier...we need to think of earth as a spacecraft. When we’ve used up those resources, they were gone forever”
Well the books offers some rather interesting introspective
from the classic Malthus to more contemporaries like Paul enrlich concerning the matter. But the book starts with a sort of hypothetical approach first off with baby Nargis (the 7 billionth baby, there’s no way she was the 7th billion). But at the same time continually delving into the topic as if it was again a hypocritical question by presenting a fictional country categorized as an (LDC). Some history was provided concerning the subject matter, but then continually a pivot to the romanticism notion that technological advances will solve the overpopulation problem. It mentioned some statistics on various parts of the world and their approach’s in the past. Unfortunately the author continues with attempting to portray the real problem of overpopulation as only a hypothetical argument of the Optimist versus the Pessimist debate on futurism, and so their is no positive neutrality or the golden middle way expressed on the subject. In my opinion the author didn’t explain the subject according to reality. The author assumptions knowing nature is already exasperated by climate issues, sociological issues, crime and poverty and technological latencies due to overpopulation suggests that it’s best to leave the fate of the planet to chance because more intelligence people will exist to solve the problems in higher masses ?
The book is really political posing to simply assume the argument of overpopulation is simply a protagonist versus optimist, and that evolution of all life and the preservation of it is indicative to either more people or less when history has proven both otherwise. And clearly offers no positive neutrality for what is the most solution which is a world wide birth ban with equal birth control measures.
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