Likely/possible future new population publications:
The Christian case for policies aiming to balance human numbers against available resources. (Provisional title)By John Guillebaud, MA FRCSEd MFFP, Emeritus Professor of Family Planning & Reproductive Health, UC London.
The British Royal Family on the need for ecological balance and population control
.Although the royal family plays little part in the everyday functioning of the machinery of government, it clearly has a role in the total political process and
occasionally addresses public opinion directly. Members have from time to time made strong public statements on environmental and ecological balance, occasionally coming out strongly in favour of the purposive control of numbers.We hope to publish a selection of statements, commencing with that of HM King George VI on setting up the Royal Commission on Population in 1945.
How to boost the birth rate when necessary?
Although PPP espouses both population control and optimisation, we fully accept the obvious fact that in some cases numbers can fall too fast and/or too far, causing structural problems in the short run and even extinction in the long run.
Population control policy is potentially a two-way process, introducing measures to reduce the birth rate when it is too high, conversely, to raise it when it is too low, and, in general, to so arrange society’s norms, incentives, and disincentives that the bulk of the citizenry voluntarily chooses to reproduce at about the right level to match the death rate.
This monograph will briefly examine the feasibility of raising the birth rate, if needed, by providing effective incentives to suitable mothers-to-be who would otherwise have induced terminations, to bear their child in the national interest, either for rearing themselves, or for adoption.
Playing the ‘Numbers-Game’.
By Jack Parsons. A critical review of the widely-adopted diversionary strategy for the prevention of free and rational discussion of population numbers, especially in the sphere of immigration-control.
The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Policymaking. (Provisional title)
By Dr Ray Thomas of the Open University. An examination of the creation, distribution and use of official statistics – particularly relating to the labour force and to unemployment and underemployment. With recommendations for improvements in both methodology and practice.
Population invasions, takeovers, and expulsions.
A brief recapitulation of the material on this topic in the Parsons book/CD ROM, on human population competition. Details of many practical examples coupled with an analysis of the rights and wrongs of the matter.
Female collusion with the Big-man.
A brief exposition and development of the theme sketched out in Parsons’ book/CD ROM on population competition.
Population. The mammoth in the drawing-room?
A brief exposition and critique of the near-universal pretence that the population problem does not – often that it could not – exist. This is especially important among opinion-forming and propagating elites, foreign-aid agencies, and political parties and governments.
Population pressures at the margin.
A brief reminder of the fact that in any finite system there is a tendency – widely recognised in the old saw, ‘It’s the last straw that breaks the camel’s back!’, but almost universally neglected in practice – for the impact of each additional unit to increase as the limit of the system is approached..
Concrete examples are given – notably from the scientific study of traffic flows and congestion – and the lessons applied to population and the wider society.
(5) Possible further reprints
Perverse subsidies.
By Dr Norman Myers, CMG, of Green College Oxford. Re- print of an earlier paper drawing attention to the prevalence and power of subsidies having either the reverse effect of that intended, or serious side-effects
Too Many Peop
le.By A. Carter. We hope to obtain permission to reprint this excellent Fabian pamphlet originally published in 1962.
A Contradiction in the Argument of Malthus
.By the late Sir Fred Hoyle, FRS. Again, we hope to obtain permission to reprint this radical Hull University monograph , first published in 1965, plus a brief commentary drawing attention to what is believed to be a flaw in Hoyle’s challenging thesis.
Several other significant but neglected works by Hoyle and others are also being considered.
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