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The Stork and the Plow Hardcover – September 26, 1995

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America's most respected experts on population and the authors of the best-seller, The Population Bomb, outline a plan for combatting the coming increase in population with changes in the treatment of women and farmers.

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364 pages
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English
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Putnam Adult
Publication date

September 26, 1995
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18 years and up
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6.4 x 1.2 x 9.54 inches
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0399140743
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978-0399140747
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Theodore elliott

Numbers are important

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2021

I tell people that "Global warming is an overpopulation issue- simply put, too many people burning too many resources". Usually draws a blank. This blanket statement looks obvious to me. Rich and poor alike, whether farmers in the Amazon clearing rain forest for McDonald burghers, or the filthy rich with their private jets. Billions of tons of C02, mostly from rich overconsumption but not all. "The USA is the most overpopulated country in the world, due to enormous waste and overconsumption of resources" - I agree. Almost 40% of food is wasted here, e.g. That includes all the fossil fuels that produced it.

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ike

Armageddon

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2007

This book succinctly points out that over-population is the real

rattlesnake in the woodshed. Because correcting this will involve

limiting family size, politicians will not only ignore this they will

stubbornly refuse to even talk about it. The alternatives of war

famine and disease are the politically correct ways to control population.

Sad.

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William E. Fleischmann

"The Population Bomb" Revisited

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2002

Paul Ehrlich began his doomsaying quest more than 30 years ago with "The Population Bomb" and, with the benefit of hindsight, covers the same ground again with "The Stork and the Plow".
Ehrlich (this time accompanied by his wife, Anne, and Gretchen Daily) admits that his earlier predictions were off the mark and even makes an attempt to address where those earlier predictions went wrong ... and then promptly repeats the same mistakes.
The anecdotes that show the suffering in sub-Saharan Africa are chilling. Such images cannot touch a feeling heart without making a lasting impression. The reasons for the suffering that the author recounts are right there within the body of the work - political upheval, maldistribution, misuse of agricultural capacity and oppressive poverty linked to all three. These problems, however, are treated as secondary to the tried and true "Population Bomb" nonsense.
As in his earlier work, Ehrlich still hasn't grasped the difference between finite resources and FIXED supply and demand. This is both poor science and poor history. The problem is not (even in the smaller framework of sub-Saharan Africa rather than worldwide) that sufficient food cannot be produced to accommodate population growth. It is those very problems that have been dismissed as secondary that prevent enough food from being produced and/or being made available to the people.
He also fails to note what has happened throughout the rest of the world. As these problems have been overcome by human societies across the globe, human misery has been lessened and birthrates (the supposed problem) have declined without intervention from any external source - which is clearly what is being advocated here.
The trends that Ehrlich discusses are not even accurate. Sub-saharan Africa lags behind the rest of the world in almost every category (per capita caloric intake, income, access to clean water and sewage), but that is because these things are improving at a slower pace than elsewhere, NOT because things are getting worse. And this is despite the political unrest that still rears its head across the continent.
The worst thing about this tome is that it risks concentrating efforts on Ehrlich's pet project rather than the real problems in the region.

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Charles G. Harris

Julian Simon presents great rebutal to Ehrlich's arguments

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 1999

How many times does the old Malthusian argument have to be defeated. If you have never read a Julian Simon book then please read "The Ultimate Resource II". He has been publicly exposing Ehrlichs false predictions for the past 30 years. Malthusian predictions were scary to me when I first heard them, I have been interested in population growth and the limits of the Earth's resousrces since I was in grade school, but Julian Simon thoroughly defeats any arguments for "serious changes" to be made. The wealth that humans create when allowed to trade freely is good for the environment. Mass starvations and environmental disasters occur when totalitarian governmental regulation destroy free markets and property rights...

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