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For over half a century, policymakers committed to population control have perpetrated a gigantic, costly, and inhumane fraud upon the human race. They have robbed people of the developing countries of their progeny and the people of the developed world of their pocketbooks. Determined to stop population growth at all costs, those Mosher calls "population controllers" have abused women, targeted racial and religious minorities, undermined primary health care programs, and encouraged dictatorial actions if not dictatorship. They have skewed the foreign aid programs of the United States and other developed countries in an anti-natal direction, corrupted dozens of well-intentioned nongovernmental organizations, and impoverished authentic development programs. Blinded by zealotry, they have even embraced the most brutal birth control campaign in history: China's infamous one-child policy, with all its attendant horrors. There is no workable demographic definition of "overpopulation." Those who argue for its premises conjure up images of poverty - low incomes, poor health, unemployment, malnutrition, overcrowded housing to justify anti-natal programs. The irony is that such policies have in many ways caused what they predicted - a world which is poorer materially, less diverse culturally, less advanced economically, and plagued by disease. The population controllers have not only studiously ignored mounting evidence of their multiple failures; they have avoided the biggest story of them all. Fertility rates are in free fall around the globe. Movements with billions of dollars at their disposal, not to mention thousands of paid advocates, do not go quietly to their graves. Moreover, many in the movement are not content to merely achieve zero population growth, they want to see negative population numbers. In their view, our current population should be reduced to one or two billion or so. Such a goal would keep these interest groups fully employed. It would also have dangerous consequences for a global environment.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 7 reviews)

A VERY important book by bookscdsdvdsandcoolstuff (USA)

5 Stars
August 06, 2009
Since the days of Malthus we have been hearing that a non-existent "population bomb" is about to destroy the planet. Any sober look at the facts proves this to be wrong, but scientific facts don't matter to those who pursue ideological agendas. This book is an excellent and sober analysis that shows why population control is such a flawed (and evil) agenda. Highly recommended.

Painfully short on argument, painfully long on opinion by N. A. Davis

1 Stars
July 31, 2009
The author is a staunch believer in the sanctity of the 'natural family' (father in a paternalistic role, mother in a helpmeet role, many children), and in the soundness of 'Natural Family Planning' as a method of promoting female autonomy. He presents no justification for these views, and he vilifies those who don't embrace them, especially those who also think that there are good grounds for embracing different sorts of families, and different (more effective! more REALLY female-controlled) schema for family planning. All of those who think that there are other sound social arrangements, and better sexual/contraceptive/family planning modes.....well....we're all wrong: we're 'anti-people,' 'pro-abortion,' genocidal, etc. 'Nuff said. Dogmatically written, virtually bereft of argument, selective in the choice of putative evidence and in the commentators cited....this is the sort of 'intellectual exercise' that is an exercise in self-indulgence, not a real contribution to the very difficult (and important) discussions about how we are to balance population, ecological, family, and individual concerns regarding choices to have (or not have) more children.

Faulty reasoning will lead to huge overshoot of Earth's resources by Lisa A. Sammet (Craftsbury, Vermont)

1 Stars
March 10, 2009
This book tells much in a vociferous and prejorative language, villifying any person who wants to limit population growth. Though many of the facts are true, the interpretations often are wrong. The author makes out any person wanting to limit human population growth as a person trying to do great harm. Though some population control measures in some areas may seem harsh, the reality is that the human population has well overextended the ability of the earth to support us. Mosher neglects to address the REASON why there are people, governments and organizations who want to put limits on human growth. The fact is that humans are using up too many resources both renewable and norenewable. Each new person creates another footprint of carbon. The world is warming up. The more people there are, the more CO2 is released. Humans have also used up most of the oil. Our world wide agriculture system is heavily dependent on oil. The great strides of the Green Revolution have only been made by the large input of chemical fertilizers which need large amounts of energy to produce their yields. World Wide agricultural yields hit a peak a few years ago and they have started to decline. Part of the reason for this is that soils are being depleted. Soils cropped with only chemical fertilizers wear out when no organic matter is being added.Most of the arable land on the earth is in agricultural use already. Big tracks of rain forests are being cut down for agriculture, thereby agrivating global warming. World fresh, clean water supplies are running out. Even renewable resources such as fisheries and trees are being used up so that it is hard to renew them. Some fish species are entirely wiped out. If humans want to live, they can't move into all the wild places where wild animals and plants live. These species are essential for the health and the overall well-being and life-functioning of the planet. If people want to see the effects on past civilizations of uncontrolled resource use and population, they should read COLLAPSE by Jared Diamond. In that book we see the story of separate civilizations that overshot their environment. The trouble for us who live in the 21st century, is that we have no new place to move to. The problem is a global one. My friend who gave me this book gave me an article by Mosher stating that the whole world's population could be fit into the state of Texas. Well. They might be able to fit in, but all their food and much of their water would have to be imported. Mosher says that world population rates are declining. Yes, they are (though not as fast as the figures he claims). The reason why? All the programs, good and bad, have been working. Having worked in Africa, I knew many woman who wanted to have access to birth control- and this was not in the city, but in the village. Since one farmer can produce enough food for 100 or more, I am not worried about having more old people than young. Many 0ld people, as we can see in this economic crisis we are now in, are able to work. At what point does Mosher think that there is enough people? The world population has doubled since I was born. I don't think that the world, especially the natural world, is the better for it. How does Mosher plan to feed all the people? How will they live when oil runs out? How will they drink when water supplies run low? The best thing about reading this book is to understand why there are people who don't see human population growth as a problem so that those of us who believe that it is a big problem can try to refute some of their arguments. Many populaton planners realize that coercion isn't the best method. What had been found to work is: 1. Give women access to safe birth control, 2. Help the culture understand that women should have access to birth control, 3. Education on birth control methods and family planning. It has been shown that some women will choose to have no children, some will have 2, some 3, and fewer will have 4 or more, but that, in general, it evens out to a replacement fertility rate of 2.1. It would be better to plan for lower populations, than to face resource wars when too many people fight over fewer and fewer resources. This book leads the reader astray.

Important for all to know by Charles White

4 Stars
February 26, 2009
This is a book for all people to read and find out how population control will harm people all over the world.

Witty and brilliant, and taking no prisoners by Jeri Nevermind (Idaho)

5 Stars
August 21, 2008
Mosher's book argues from the first line that "most of us grew up on a poisonous diet of overpopulation propaganda....Vice President Al Gore, who warned of an 'environmental holocaust without precedent'...that will engulf us if we do not stop having babies," and "The Population Bomb", that bestseller which predicted famine would soon be upon us. Indeed most of the predicted demographic nightmare of growing population was based, not on overwhelming numbers of new babies, but on a huge elderly population, that, with new medical procedures, keeps living on...and on. That enormous new elderly population is what has mostly swelled the population numbers. Now that those numbers of elderly are about to peak, the world population will start to decline. For some countries, such as Russia, Spain, Japan, and perhaps most of Europe, the population appears to be in a frightening death spiral. Mosher is out to tell the truth, root out old assumptions, and he gives statistics that are bound to surprise you. Such as, "The old age tsunami that is about to hit Japan will not spare other Asian countries. The Four Tigers--Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore--are already long in the tooth. China and India, the world's two demographic giants, are tottering along not far behind" (p 17). Russia is in dire trouble with population. Between now and 2050, all indications are that Russia will lose a quarter of its population. No wonder Putin has offered any woman willing to have a second child $9,000. South Korea's birthrate is 1.2. Thailand has a birth rate of 1.9. What will happen to these countries as their populations decline? Will housing prices fall dramatically, and, with fewer consumers, will depressions result? How will these countries continue to care for the elderly? These are the real problems we need to tackle, not problems of overpopulation. Mosher gives a thorough history of the population control movement, including such famous names as Rockerfeller and Margaret Mead. Organizations like the World Bank and the UN, using code words like "reproductive health" have attacked the poorer countries of the world with sterilizations, sometimes forced or with bribes, abortions, and contraceptives. And lectures, endless, hectoring lectures. Anyone interested in these facts will also want to read "Disappearing Daughters" which details the 100 missing women in India and China. Yes, that many female babies have been aborted or killed in India and China.

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