Misplaced Blame: The Real Roots of Population Growth (New Report, No 5) (Paperback)

by Alan Thein Durning (Author), Christopher D. Crowther (Author), Northwest Environment Watch (Organization) (Author)

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"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

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Number 5 in Northwest Environment Watch’s series of short, hard-hitting books on creating a sustainable society.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 93 pages
• Publisher: Northwest Environment Watch (July 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886093059
• ISBN-13: 978-1886093058
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,546,138 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A strikingly original view of teen pregnancy, overpopulation, October 9, 1998

By	Michael A. Males (Oklahoma City, OK United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Alan Durning and coauthors are on the leading edge of innovative views that are replacing 20 years of shopworn, often racist official views of teenage pregnancy, immigration, and population issues. With Washington state's Advancing Solutions to Adolescent Pregnancy, these authors show how America's destructive policies toward the young, including high rates of poverty, poor health services, and tolerance for family violence, create the very "epidemic" of teenage motherhood policy makers piously deplore, and how Canada's (and to a lesser extent, Seattle's) more generous approaches reduce teen motherhood considerably. This is a futuristic roadmap not only to population issues in the Pacific Northwest bioregion, but one with national implications as to how the U.S.'s cold policies toward its young people unnecessarily contribute to overpopulation.