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Population Politics - The Choices That Shape Our Future (Paperback, New Ed)
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Population Politics - The Choices That Shape Our Future (Paperback, New Ed)
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International efforts to regulate fertility rates so that
populations do not grow beyond the earth's capacity have included
technical assistance and capital; improved health care conditions
to lower the risk of infant mortality; increased opportunities to
develop literacy; the democratization of governments; and several
decades of liberal immigration and refugee policies favoring third
world nations. The persistence of high fertility despite
international efforts confounds demographers.
"Population Politics" brilliantly dissects the paradigm
responsible for the counterproductive efforts of nations and
international agencies. Abernethy, a renowned anthropologist, shows
why policies hamper the shift to lower fertility. Ireland,
Indonesia, Cuba, China, Turkey and Egypt are but a few of the
countries Abernethy examines, showing how economic, sociocultural,
and agricultural factors that have caused population growth can be
harnessed to stabilize population size.
"Population Politics" is a provocative examination of the
influence of aid and liberal immigration policies on world
population growth, and often counterproductive to the role of the
United States as an industrial power. This volume's uniquely
interdisciplinary perspective will enlighten the lay reader, as
well as demographers and epidemiologists, conservationists,
reproduction and family specialists, agricultural economists, and
public health personnel.
"Addresses one of the most vexing issues of our time--why after
five or more decades of helping' poor countries improve their
standard of living, is poverty still the rule? In light of
Abernethy's facts, leaders in the United States cannot be excused
from rethinking policies with respect to immigration and foreign
aid. This book provides a fresh look at classic and neoclassic
views of overpopulation."--Kingsley Davis, The Hoover Institution,
Stanford, California
"A splendid critique of how U.S. foreign aid and liberal
immigration policy] result in population growth here and
abroad."--Donald L. Huddle, Rice University, Houston, Texas
"Virginia D. Abernethy" is professor emeritus of psychiatry
(anthropology) at Vanderbilt Medical School and was for 11 years
the editor of the scholarly journal "Population and Environment.
"Garrett Hardin" is emeritus professor of human ecology in the
Department of Biological Sciences and the University of California,
Santa Barbara.
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