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having children must not be deliberated from a social or ecological position alone,
removed from where it primarily belongs: from among the most personal decisions
of families, couples, women. Whether we have children or not, whether we have
one or half a dozen, let us leave the worries over demographic implications to the
statisticians, researchers and politicians, and let us serve the common cause of
humankind by consciously preparing for the changes and teaching our children
in that spirit.
Recommended readings
Haggett, Peter 2001. Geography: A Global Synthesis. 4th edition. Harlow, Pearson Hall.
[New York, Harper & Row, 1983.]
The first edition of the textbook used widely in higher education appeared in 1972.
Demographic geography cannot remain absent from an overview of geography. In
part 6 (Population Dynamics), the reader is briefly informed of the changes in the
number of people, of the demographic transition and current trends. Further chapters
contain information about the issues of the correlation between environmental
resources and the ecosystem.
Meadows, D. H. — Meadows, D. L. — Randers, J. — Behrens III, W. W. 1972. The Limits
of Growth. A Report for The Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind. New
York, Universe Books.
The limits to growth has been an essential work for people wishing to engross themselves
in the problem of overpopulation and remains so to this day. The computer simulation,
a revolutionary innovation in those days, predicted a frightening future for human¬
kind, a real Malthusian disaster with exhausted energy resources, deprecated soil and
eventually a collapsing global population. Since its appearance, it has been strongly
criticized for its methodology and conclusions, yet it opened a door to a discourse on
sustainable development and impressed upon academia the hazards of overpopulation.
In this sense, it may be one of the most important writings of the 20th century.
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