Population, Law, and the Environment.

In this intelligent and well-written book, Robert Hardaway makes a point-counterpoint challenge to Vice President Al Gore's views as expressed in Earth in the Balance. Hardaway seeks to answer the question of how national policies on family planning, abortion, immigration, education, and economic regulation affect the environment. He argues that governmental policies to date have been curative and reactive in nature, focusing on cleanup costs of past disasters and future limitations on emissions of pollutants...