The War Against Population: The Economics and Ideology of Population Control

by Jacqueline Kasun

Book Overview

Argues that population growth is not really a serious problem, examines the economic implications, and discusses U.S. foreign aid, sex education, adolescent pregnancy, and government family planning. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898707129
• ISBN13: 9780898707120
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Boldly Questioning the Assumptions

This book is controversial. It is controversial because it offers a point of view - backed up by copious amounts of factual data from scholarly sources - that is contrary to 99.9% of the available "information" on the world's population "problem". If one is to be truly rational in one's actions, opinions, beliefs and allegiences in this manner, it is imperative to question the assumptions on which one's view of reality are based. The interpretation of population statistics is complex. This being the only book I have come across that makes a serious attemt to question and test what others simply assume, I cannot be 100% convinced that the state of the world is exactly as this author has ultimately interpreted it - but if only 5% of the conclusions drawn in this book are "unbiased", there is sufficient evidence to suggest that there has been a sustained, conscious effort by "powers that be" to produce evidence of an overly-populated world that is substantialy more rhetoric than fact. Could it be that the political and intellectual leaders of our consumer-driven Western world simply find it more expedient to blame "over-population" for the world's economic, environmental, and sociological crises, than to seriously question the values that underpin their own policies?The time has come for us to be mnore holistic in our approach to the world's - that is, the human family's - collective problems. This book is a start.

Controversial but honest.

I make it a point to read books attacked by most for being ideologically biased, while others hold the same book up as an example of clear thinking.Read the book for yourself. Any open minded person will find her arguments to be:sound, rational, clear, and correct!

Tremendous

Clear, well annotated, to the point. A tremendous resource

Debunks the Mathusian Myth

This book is a devestating critic of the overpopulation myth with US government and UN statistics to boot! Dr. Kasun is not a politician, rather she is a distinguished professor of economics at Humbolt University. Chock full of statistics, this book is a must read. Forget Al Gore, George Soros, Ted Turner and other Malthusian nuts, they are WRONG and this book proves it.When done reading this book, dig up a copy of the now out of print, "Trashing the Planet" by Dixie Lee Ray and Lou Guzzo.

One of the most convincing books I have read.

It has many statistics that prove all the evidence given by the author. The statistics come from reliable sources. It is a very good book.