Volume 24, Number 7 · April 28, 1977
What Caused the Explosion?
By William L. Langer
The Modern Rise of Population
by Thomas McKeown
Academic Press, 168 pp., $14.50
Now that overpopulation has been recognized as one, and not one of the least, of the major threats to the future of the human race, it has become the subject of countless books, articles, television programs, and symposia of all kinds. Yet even now amazingly little attention is being paid to the background and causes of this overriding problem. Only a few of the better texts of modern history give it a paragraph or at most a page, chiefly in reference to the great emigrations from Europe in the nineteenth century.
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