| The Stork and the Plow: The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma | 
 enlarge | Authors: Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, Gretchen C. Daily
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (T)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2297177
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 364
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.7 x 1.3
ISBN: 0399140743
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.91
EAN: 9780399140747
ASIN: 0399140743
Publication Date: October 1995
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 Increasing population, finite resources, possible solutions. August 14, 1998
Paul Ehrlich looks at the prospects of feeding the growing world population. The content is a sobering wakeup call. Continued population growth and finite resources of the earth present a bleak picture. Although the overall picture is somewhat depressing, Ehrlich describes some points for optimism including the trend in several areas for reduced or reversed population growth. This book provides a warning of what will occur if steps are not taken reduce population growth and prevent environmental degredation. Previous predictions of the doom of humankind have not come to pass, but attention should be given to the projections of this book and ideas that are presented as possible means to avert future disaster.
 A gaseous, wretched, and thoroughly misanthropic book. September 26, 1996
This book rehashes the worst sort of discredited malthusianism in the same tortuous, offensive manner as Ehrlich has in his previous works, principally through the use of emotional appeal, pseudo-science, and an unabashed contempt for species homo sapiens. "The Stork and the Plow" is a notably useless and irrelevant book: irrelevant because the problem it supposesto address is non-existent, and useless because it is mostlya regurgitation of what Ehrlich has been saying for the better part of four decades. If this miserable gloom-and-doom tract represents the cutting-edge work of the population-bomb fanatics, then they have already lost the debate.
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