Dark Horses

In a saner age, James A. Weber’s refreshing book on population, Grow or Die (Arlington House, $11.95), might seem superfluous. In our disordered epoch, it is essential reading for survival.

With a nice display of statistical data, Weber deflates the chimerical fears of the neo-Malthusian types who have controlled discussion on this issue. Neither the United States nor the world in general, he informs us, is suffering from overpopulation. To the extent that numbers of people have anything to do with the contemporary malaise, the problem is that we have too few of them around and not too many.

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In a saner age, James A. Weber’s refreshing book on population, Grow or Die (Arlington House, $11.95), might seem superfluous. In our disordered epoch, it is essential reading for survival.

With a nice display of statistical data, Weber deflates the chimerical fears of the neo-Malthusian types who have controlled discussion on this issue. Neither the United States nor the world in general, he informs us, is suffering from overpopulation. To the extent that numbers of people have anything to do with the contemporary malaise, the problem is that we have too few of them around and not too many.