Word: planets
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World population growth-and how to slow it-continues to be a subject of great controversy. The planet's poorest nations have yet to find effective ways to check their population increase-at least without restricting citizens' rights and violating such traditions as the custom of having large families as insurance in old age. India's new government, for example, has abandoned coercive birth control procedures, even though the country, with a population of 635 million, is growing by a million new people per month. The U.S. National Security Council has said that runaway population growth...
...know that eventually the world's population will have to stop growing. What is uncertain is how. And when. At what level. And with what result. We can avoid a world of 11 billion, and all the misery that such an impoverished and crowded planet would imply. Man is still young in cosmic terms. In the time perspective of the universe, he is recent, and tentative, and perhaps even experimental. He makes mistakes. And yet, if he is truly sapiens-thinking and wise-then surely there is promise...
Dosadi is the name of a barren planet, isolated from the rest of the universe by a "god-wall" from an unknown source, the Calebens. (No Shakespearian connotations, as they are good guys.) Outside of Dosadi's wall is a complex universe with a tenuous power balance among humans, the frog-like Gowachins and the death-dancing wreaves--with their Kung-fu-like movements and poisoned mandibles. Jorj X. McKie, a red-haired man of Polynesian descent, is the only human accepted as a Legum in the Gowachin legal system. Herbert fails to give the legal cult the depth...
...feeling of deja vu, Dosadi, with its poisonous ecology, holistically breeds a supremely cunning civilization. The Gowachins established a colony there to observe human development. The densely populated city Chu is under constant siege from the desperate people of the "rim," who are exposed to the brunt of the planet's hardships. Their only chance for species survival is to breed uncontrollably...
...romance between McKie and the female Keila Jedrick, the most cunning of the hostile planet's products, is the book's focal point. Though the two have their good moments, especially when they unite their minds, this relationship fails to carry the book with the necessary emotion...