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With his usual clarity and dash Fred Pearce brings us the best news we've heard in 10,000 years - that the human population should soon level out, at a number that should be quite manageable; and some of the problems that may seem so dire in truth are assets - including the rise in average age and the increase in migration. This isn't wishful thinking - it's hard science. And it changes everything. --Colin Tudge
Peoplequake is a debate-shaping book. Sobre, fascinating, it redraws the boundaries of the population debate. Pearce points out that the Earth could adequately meet the needs of a bigger population, but only once natural resources are shared more equally and managed using ecological principles. The population bomb would defuse itself even quicker if we tackled over-consumption by the rich instead of fretting about the poor having children. This brilliant book's insights could save many lives and stop many more from suffering. --Andrew Simms, Policy Director at the New Economics Forum
What a wonderfully rich and humane book! As a generation of newly-empowered women sweeps away our wrongheaded Malthusian nightmare, Fred Pearce demonstrates persuasively that the end of the population surge may well usher in a new era of ethnic tolerance, increased global integration and a period of kinder and more nurturing governance. --Ross Gelbspan, author of THE HEAT IS ON and BOILING POINT
Fearless and well-informed; every paragraph crackles. Pearce evokes past and present with vivid detail and startlingly coherent insight.
--Jesse H. Ausubel, Director of the Program for the Human Environment and Senior Research Associate at The Rockefeller University
One of Britain's most prolific and entertaining science writers
--The Sunday Times, January 31, 2010
This very readable book is a hopeful counterblast to the misanthropic doom-mongering that dominates much of the population debate, and I finished it with a smile on my face ... Pearce's celebration of humanity makes this book a joy.
--BBC Focus Magazine
This is a well written and important book ... we highly recommend (Fred Pearce's) book - everyone should be grateful that he wrote it --New Scientist, March 10, 2010
I judge books by how dog-eared they are when I finish them and whether I buy copies to press into the hands of colleagues and friends. This book soars in both categories.I've been active in population politics and recently wrote about the subject in my own book (Whole Earth Discipline). I wish to hell I'd had Pearce's book in hand when I was writing, because he produces no end of important news on the subject, including the deep streak of eugenic wrong theory that has nearly poisoned the subject ever since Malthus. (Applause to HG Wells for seeing through the pious racism back when everyone thought it was obvious truth.)
This is a great book on a crucial subject.
--Stewart Brand, author of 'Whole Earth Discipline'
Please try to find out what's really happening in the world before deciding to "do something about it". To this end, [you] could do no better than buy a copy of 'Peoplequake'.
--Independent, 25 May 2010
Peoplequake is a debate-shaping book. Sobre, fascinating, it redraws the boundaries of the population debate. Pearce points out that the Earth could adequately meet the needs of a bigger population, but only once natural resources are shared more equally and managed using ecological principles. The population bomb would defuse itself even quicker if we tackled over-consumption by the rich instead of fretting about the poor having children. This brilliant book's insights could save many lives and stop many more from suffering. --Andrew Simms, Policy Director at the New Economics Forum
What a wonderfully rich and humane book! As a generation of newly-empowered women sweeps away our wrongheaded Malthusian nightmare, Fred Pearce demonstrates persuasively that the end of the population surge may well usher in a new era of ethnic tolerance, increased global integration and a period of kinder and more nurturing governance. --Ross Gelbspan, author of THE HEAT IS ON and BOILING POINT
Fearless and well-informed; every paragraph crackles. Pearce evokes past and present with vivid detail and startlingly coherent insight.
--Jesse H. Ausubel, Director of the Program for the Human Environment and Senior Research Associate at The Rockefeller University
One of Britain's most prolific and entertaining science writers
--The Sunday Times, January 31, 2010
This very readable book is a hopeful counterblast to the misanthropic doom-mongering that dominates much of the population debate, and I finished it with a smile on my face ... Pearce's celebration of humanity makes this book a joy.
--BBC Focus Magazine
This is a well written and important book ... we highly recommend (Fred Pearce's) book - everyone should be grateful that he wrote it --New Scientist, March 10, 2010
I judge books by how dog-eared they are when I finish them and whether I buy copies to press into the hands of colleagues and friends. This book soars in both categories.I've been active in population politics and recently wrote about the subject in my own book (Whole Earth Discipline). I wish to hell I'd had Pearce's book in hand when I was writing, because he produces no end of important news on the subject, including the deep streak of eugenic wrong theory that has nearly poisoned the subject ever since Malthus. (Applause to HG Wells for seeing through the pious racism back when everyone thought it was obvious truth.)
This is a great book on a crucial subject.
--Stewart Brand, author of 'Whole Earth Discipline'
Please try to find out what's really happening in the world before deciding to "do something about it". To this end, [you] could do no better than buy a copy of 'Peoplequake'.
--Independent, 25 May 2010
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A groundbreaking book that reveals the truth about population levels, and where they will take us in the future.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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a hugely important summary of the demographic challenges facing the next 3 generations .
and they are certainly not what people think they are .
I've given this to all mine and my partners children with strict instructions to read .
and then to pass on to their partners and friends .
I've never recommended a book so strongly .
and they are certainly not what people think they are .
I've given this to all mine and my partners children with strict instructions to read .
and then to pass on to their partners and friends .
I've never recommended a book so strongly .
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I read an excerpt of this book in the Guardian Weekly and almost immediately went and bought it. It's a fascinating read, albeit a little sensationalist at times (well, the author's a journalist - what should I expect?). Really enjoyed the survey of population theorists and government population campaigns - the facts and figures are astounding and often shocking. I've had difficulty putting it down - a recommended read.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Well, Fred Pearce can write. No doubt about that. And write fast, I suppose, since this book appears very simplistic. Initially the Irish potato famine is described to set the scene. Pearce tells the story he likes to tell, but please take the trouble to read J S Donnelly (The Great Irish Potato Famine) for the real, balanced story! Pearce's presentation of concepts like biofuel and demographic transition are likewise simplistic and skewed. Downright funny is his dismissal of of Meadows and al., Limits to Growth from a. 1970: The[ir] main model run showed business continuing as usual till about 2010. After that, 'as resource prices rise and mines are depleted, more and more capital must be used for obtaining resources, leaving less to be invested for [...]'. Well, might not Peak Oil fit that prediction remarkably well? No reflection on that by Fred Pearce! - More scary is that Pearce takes for granted that the rest of the world should just give way and surrender the world to the overly fecund. Sure, a demographic collapse in a country with 8 to 12-fold population increase within just a few generations could be Hell on Earth - but need it really be the end of the world? Not living in such a country myself, I could easily see the world live through such events and emerge in better shape eventually. - For a more balanced and not so sensational, but still popular account of modern world demograhics, read 'More' by Robert Engelman instead.
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Refreshing
This is an engaging and easy-to-read take on the current state of world population.
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A must read
Have just finished this enlightening book. it ought to be a must read for senior school pupils. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Published 5 months ago by Ralph Dexter
You only read twice
Great book but why the hell is it published by two publishers under two completely different titles? Read more
Published 10 months ago by Bracca Ley
Tabloid journalism
For an esteemed scientific journalist, Pearce writes in a very sloppy fashion. Like this. With sentences. No verbs. Read more
Published 12 months ago by C. F. Boyle
A broad perspective on the population debate
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Published 13 months ago by Jeremy Williams
A whistle-stop demographic tour
Fred Pearce has written a book that contributes to the discussion about the number of people the planet can sustainably support. Read more
Published 13 months ago by J. Milton
A lone voice speaks up
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Published 19 months ago by RG
Population, debated intelligently
I've known, in a vague way, that the dire predictions of 18th-century thinker Robert Malthus about the perils of over-population (learnt about in school history lessons) were no... Read more
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Now the best book on population
I judge books by how dog-eared they are when I finish them and whether I buy copies to press into the hands of colleagues and friends. This book soars in both categories. Read more
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A demographic pageturner
I was triggered to read Peoplequake by a tweet that led to Fred Pearce's suspense article on the shrinking eastern German city of Hoyerswerda in The Guardian. Read more
Published on 9 Mar 2010 by R. E. Van Dalm
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