Population Fallacies - Softcover

Parsons, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0301740321 ISBN 13: 9780301740324

Publisher: Pemberton Publishing Co Ltd, 1977

Synopsis

In this book Jack Parsons analyses, more comprehensively than any previous author, the basic fallacies concerning population increase and it’s relation to social, economic, and other factors. His findings and conclusions are of vital concern to all who are trying to understand or to solve the pressing problems of population and resources and improve the lot of mankind.
He concludes that just as an end to population growth is inevitable by one means or another, as well as being desirable, so must mankind soon go through the "economic transition" into an economic steady state and thenceforth remain there as long as the species lasts. He regards this in no sense as a penalty or a cause for gloom but as a re-entry into man’s normal condition, in which and for which he evolved, and as a great liberation from the twin tyrannies of the population explosion and conventional growth-orientated economies.

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Review

A book with a purpose ... a brilliant flare-lit picture of an increasingly significant battleground. -- Times Educational Supplement, 3 April, 1978

A lively as well as scholarly introduction ... which rings the changes from the usual chapter-and-verse on the ... teeming millions. -- New Internationalist, June, 1977

Lucid [and] thoroughly documented. -- Bookshelf, 1977

Parsons is a rare individual one who clearly understands his subject and writes about it with wit, vigour, and precision... -- IUCN Bulletin . 8(3)., 1977

About the Author

Jack Parsons has had a varied career. He was a mechanical engineering apprentice until World War II, through which he served as an RAF pilot. He spent time in civil engineering before exploring Western Europe on foot. After this he won a Mature State Scholarship, graduated in philosophy and politics, and later lectured at Brunel University where his interest in population grew strongly.
He was a founder member of the Conservation Society and gave many public lectures and broadcasts on these topics. He served on the Liberal Party's Optimum Population and Economic Growth panels, and was a member of the Independent Commission on Transport. His last post was Deputy Director of the Sir David Owen Population Centre, then at Cardiff University (now at Keele), where he is still a visiting lecturer.
He has been a consultant to the IPPF, OXFAM, the IUCN (for which he helped draft the Supplement to The World Conservation Strategy), & other bodies, and has many publications in his field. He gave the Keynote Address to the 1993 World Congress on the Optimum Population at Cambridge, and recently completed a computer database (CO-ORD) on the problems of social control in heterogeneous societies. He is Patron of the Optimum Population Trust, and Hon. Associate of the Rationalist Press Association, and Hon. Adviser to EPOC, (the European confederation of organisations concerned with population carrying capacity).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pemberton Publishing Co Ltd
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0301740321
• ISBN 13: 9780301740324
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256