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Are such advances sufficient to win the overall battle? No, says Professor Kingsley Davis, director of international-population and urban research at the University of California. Davis, in the Nov. 10th issue of Science, writes that the family-planning programs as presently conceived and executed cannot prevent the world from...
Government Regulation. Statistical projections tend to bear Davis out. Even in the U.S., representative of literate industrial nations where birth control has become a byword, the predicted average annual population-growth rate is averaging 1.3%. Present projections put the U.S. population at 308 million by the year 2000, 374 million...
The answer, suggests Davis, is a natural population growth rate of zero (births equal to deaths), "for any growth rate, if continued, will eventually use up the earth." Such a drastic reduction in births might require absolute government regulation of the size of families-a concept that most nations have...
Overrun World. Davis does not think such appalling correctives need ever become necessary. Instead, he feels, futurists should accept the fact that persuasion, not family planning, is the answer to population growth. He suggests economic persuaders to encourage the postponement of marriage and the limitation of births within marriage. How...
Broken legs are no laughing matter for ladies in their 70s, and Dame Margaret Rutherford, 75, hasn't chortled once. The grand old actress fractured a thigh when she tripped on a rug in her hotel room in Rome, and had to be flown to London for an emergency...