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Jack Parsons on Human Population Competition
A short synopsis of his major work
by
Edmund Davey
Acting Chairman of the UK Optimum Population Trust
£5.00
ISBN: 0-9541978-3-6
This 120 page monograph summarises Jack Parsons opus Human Population Competition. The pursuit of power through numbers. (Now available in CD format with the new title of Population Competition for Security or Attack. A study of the pursuit of power through numbers.)
Edmund Davey had the formidable task of accurately reflecting the contents of the original 2 large volumes. His synopsis is supported by the original introductions and conclusions from each of the 24 chapters in the original work.
Below is an excerpt from Edmund Davey’s Introduction:
‘The work I found myself reading is not just an academic piece, though wide research and thorough indexing are key features. Neither is it just a work of philosophy, though the challenging ideas will be new, even rather scary, to many readers. It is not just a series of yarns, funny or hair-raising, about practices and attitudes, though it has the engaging human-interest approach employed by popular historians. It contains all these elements, but it also carries a deep, defining theme, as it teases out from a huge number of sources the great variety of motives and pressures which are currently spurring the human race to take what seems to be exactly the wrong direction.
We agonise over environmental degradation, destruction of habitats and species and depletion of vital resources, whilst trying to wring desperate measures from Western and developing societies to control global warming, but we are, the author argues, ignoring perhaps the major underlying cause. This is the factor of the human population which is growing in number at an unprecedented rate to an unprecedented size.
My hope is that this synopsis will lead you to consider the major new ideas put forward and then to look for the original, where you will find a wealth of interest and challenge. If this in turn leads to a wide debate unimpeded by political correctness or misplaced sensitivity, then both Jack Parson’s strenuous marathon and my brief effort in reporting it will have served a useful purpose.’
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