Customer Reviews:
 Useful for its historical insights as much as its content December 6, 1998
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A solid piece of work which raises several important issues for consideration. Of course; first published some 20 years ago, this book is valuable for the insights into the history of population issue environmentalism almost as much as it is for its content. By far the easiest criticism to make of the book is, with the benefit of hindsight, of the atempt to "crystal-ball gaze" made by the author. It's also the most trivial criticism to make as, on the one hand, 20 years of hindsight always makes it easy to criticise anothers' atempted projections; while on the other hand, the likelihood that the projections were entirely accurate, but were averted thanks to this book and others of its ilk being published, can never be known. Certainly a benchmark publication of its type.
 Readers should read Julian Simon's books for a counterpoint April 22, 1998
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Readers should read Julian Simon's books like "The Ultimate Resource 2" for counterpoints. People through work generate and develop resources and wealth and more people means more wealth. I believe that what we should be worried about is not about the number of people but about their access to education. Education will enable people to be productive members of society and productive people will provide for themselves. I find that at the core of many of the arguments against population growth there is latent racism. Is not that there is too many people is just that there is not enough like me and my friends.
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