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I deeply regret buy this book. Amazon, shame! I found this book one of the most irresponsible pieces of literature POSSIBLE in an era when, while declaring a climate emergency last fall, 11,700 of the world's climate scientists stated, without qualification, that we CANNOT SOLVE CLIMATE WITHOUT ADDRESSING POPULATION. That particularly applies in the 3 "carbon giant nations," China, THE UNITED STATES and India, in that order. Of note, also the world's THREE MOST POPULATED NATIONS I should think that Amazon should, morally, since it's T.V. ads PROFESS CONCERN ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, put a disclaimer on this book! While Big 6 media have done a brilliant job of FALSELY portraying that the U.S. isn't growing, census data dispute that with consistent INCREASES OF 28 MILLION TO 30 MILLION A DECADE. (Boot up the U.S. Census Bureau's 'population clock' and watch it for a few minutes.) While this author seems unaware, we're already the world's 3rd most populated nation and have, at 16.5 metric tons per capita, the highest CARBON FOOTPRINT of any of the three "carbon giant" nations. India is WAY behind at only 1.8 metric tons per capita, and China comes in at a "mere," by comparison to us, 6.8 metric tons per capita. Do the math! Over 330 million of us already, times that ghastly 16.5 metric tons. That means were a near-China equivalent on our environmental hit, carbon wise, to the planet. The author also deftly ignores that the Rockefeller Commission long ago warned the more of us there are the MORE IMPOVERISHED WE WOULD BECOME, as they urged we never "risk" become 300 million Americans. Yet, here we are at a ghastly 330 million Americans--many with no guaranteed water supply in future years--and even that isn't good enough for this guy. Why does he assert that one billion of us will make us any "richer" than India or any other "Third World" nation? Disney's First Law? (Or, wishing will make it so.) He also deftly ignores that Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development--that is if we care a hoot about the environment and this author seems not to even know it exists--warned that WE CANNOT HAVE GROWTH AND SUSTAINABILITY. They also warned that we must never allow immigration to continue to fuel our exploding population. Yet, we did just that, moving ever-deeper into being a global environmental problem even as, we in 2006 passed 300 million and are already at 330 million! But just ask the author who seems to say, "Why worry? To be rich and powerful, the only POSSIBLE road is OVERPOPULATION! This diatribe--I regret the money spent on it!--is not only ill-informed, but it is irresponsible to ours and the planet's environmental future. Perhaps rather than believe the author, readers would do well to read the statement of 57 or the world's scientific academies some years back warning that we MUST strive to stabilize population "in our children's lifetimes." Instead of that, this author thinks it would be great for our children to live in the same overcrowded, often squalid conditions of ALL THE OTHER OVERPOPULATED NATIONS. Shame!