Review
"A valuable resource for advocates and policymakers alike." -- Theresa Connor, Washington State Women's Health Care Coalition
"When you hear talk about what to do with all the garbage, what to do about traffic, health care, urban sprawl, hunger-almost any kind of people-related problem-sooner or later someone says that the real trouble is population growth. Everyone agrees; nothing can be done about population growth. That helpless response has always bothered me. People make populations grow. Surely people could make populations stop growing. If we really wanted to solve it, it seems to me we should be able to do so. Now a powerful little book confirms my hunch. It's Misplaced Blame: The Real Roots of Population Growth, by Alan Thein Durning and Christopher D. Crowther of Northwest Environment Watch, a think tank for the Pacific Northwest from Northern California to southern Alaska. Its message, I think, is valid for anywhere in the U. S. and probably the world." -- Donella Meadows, LA Times
"You may dispute some of its emphases or omissions, but Misplaced Blame is a punchy piece of polemic and number crunching." -- Eric Scigliano, Quick & Dirty column, Seattle Weekly, 7/23/97
"When you hear talk about what to do with all the garbage, what to do about traffic, health care, urban sprawl, hunger-almost any kind of people-related problem-sooner or later someone says that the real trouble is population growth. Everyone agrees; nothing can be done about population growth. That helpless response has always bothered me. People make populations grow. Surely people could make populations stop growing. If we really wanted to solve it, it seems to me we should be able to do so. Now a powerful little book confirms my hunch. It's Misplaced Blame: The Real Roots of Population Growth, by Alan Thein Durning and Christopher D. Crowther of Northwest Environment Watch, a think tank for the Pacific Northwest from Northern California to southern Alaska. Its message, I think, is valid for anywhere in the U. S. and probably the world." -- Donella Meadows, LA Times
"You may dispute some of its emphases or omissions, but Misplaced Blame is a punchy piece of polemic and number crunching." -- Eric Scigliano, Quick & Dirty column, Seattle Weekly, 7/23/97
From the Publisher
Number 5 in Northwest Environment Watch’s series of short, hard-hitting books on creating a sustainable society.
