Are Our Descendants Doomed?, Technological Change and Population Growth

Timely and topical, this important book focuses on the complex and inter-related problems facing mankind today: rapid population growth, the problems of technological change, economic development, the resource base, the environment, religion, politics, government, and the individual desires of all human beings. The volume consists of a collection of papers delivered at a recent conference held at the California Institute of Technology. The proceedings here summarized provide a concise introduction to the world’s demographic dilemma, documenting Professor Harrison Brown’s warning that unless “world anarchy is replaced by a system of world law, within which framework people and nations can live in peace…technological man might well be but a transitory phenomenon on the earth”.