ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an alternative interpretation of some of the issues posed by the "population explosion". It suggests that the ambitious programmes of population control sponsored by the White North are scarcely the innocuous. The accelerating growth mesmerizes some writers on the population problem who are unable to see beyond the multiplication of mouths indicated by the soaring statistics. Little concerned with the causes of rapid population growth such as social and economic structures which may make large families essential, they can make little contribution to the formulation of programmes which might correct the condition they deplore. Food need not be a limiting factor to the growth of world population, and there seems little environmental basis for some of the strident neo-Malthusian claims regarding the inevitability of massive famines in the Tricontinental South. If the problem of food is less intractable than is sometimes claimed, the same cannot be said of the non-renewable minerals and mineral fuels.
