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Population, Resources, and the Quality of Life.
A Digest of information and interpretations from publications of the Optimum Population Trust UK, its members and others
By James P Duguid CBE, MD, BSc, FRCPath,
with the help of Edmund Davey, Acting Chairman, Andrew Ferguson, Research Co-ordinator, Jack Parsons, Patron and other members of the trust.
Extended 2nd edn. 120pp.
New ISBN: 0-9541978-4-4
£6.00
This short digest is split into four sections:
1) Concerns of the Optimum Population Trust: Overpopulation, acceptable quality of life and impact on the environment.
2) Global Population Problems: Environmental damage, food, water and energy supplies, population density, biologically productive land, ecological footprints, urbanisation and sustainability overpopulation and infection, population pressure and conflict, international migration, international aid, ills of globalisation, aid for contraception.
3) Britain's Population Problems: Britain's population, ecological footprint, harmful footprints abroad, loss of agriculture al and amenity land in Britain, quality of urban life, net immigration into Britain, replacement migration and take-over, reducing Britain's population.
4) Conclusions: Global problems and Britain's problems.
Recent reviewer David Ashton, Right Now early 2003 writes:
‘Are too many human beings coming into the world, and too many coming to live on this particular island? Or are these questions like asking how long is a piece of string?
Well, in this masterly digest and analysis of information, an eminent Dundee University biologist relates them specifically to a long list of social, economic and environmental criteria, thereby effectively countering complacency and especially the "immigration advice" designed to accelerate and perpetuate an increased influx of foreign populations into already overcrowded Britain ...
... This uniquely useful handbook details the essential facts, figures and forensics on matters of deep concern ... It is clear, concise and candid ... Whenever and wherever genuine discourse and public debate are possible, it is in short indispensable.’
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