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JACK PARSONS ON HUMAN POPULATION COMPETITION A short synopsis of his major work by Edmund Davey Chairman of the United Kingdom Optimum Population Trust Finally edited and rounded off by the author ISBN 0-9541978-3-6 (CD version of this text) Published and printed by Population Policy Press © Copyright 2002 Jack Parsons The moral right of the authors and editors has been asserted DataCrítica: International Journal of Critical Statistics publishes this synopsis thanks to the courtesy of Edmund Davey DataCrítica: International Journal of Critical Statistics , Vol.1, No.1, Supplement 1-71, 2007 © DataCrítica Creative Commons, 2007 2 DataCrítica: International Journal of Critical Statistics , Vol.1, No.1 Supplement Table of Contents Synopsis only Foreword by Professor James P Duguid CBE, MD, BSc, FRC Path.......................................................... .6 Introduction by Edmund Davey, Chairman of the Optimum Population Trust .............................. ..9 A brief history of the various editions of this book. .................................................................................... 9 Original table of contents (with both Synopsis and original page number in brackets) Volume 1 Part I The population/resources/quality of life problem 1) A brief introduction ..................................................................................................................................12 [1] Part II Introduction to competition in general 2) Environments, plants, and animals versus each other ............................................................................14 [17] 3) Humans versus environments, plants, and animals. ................................................................... 16 [43] 4) Humans versus humans in general .................................................................................................... 18 [67] Part III Human population competition 5) Sexual and population competition in small groups ............................................................... 21 [111] 6) Who belongs? ….................................................................................................................................... 23 [159] 7) Is Small really Beautiful ....................................................................................................................... 26 [187] 8) Population quantity v. population quality ......................................................................................... 29 [205] 9) Religious population competition ....................................................................................................... 32 [235] 10) Political population competition ....................................................................................................... 34 [261] 11) Military population competition ....................................................................................................... 37 [299] 12) Racial and ethnic group population competition ............................................................................ 39 [321] Volume 2 Part III continued 13) Economic population competition ................................................................................................... 42 [373] 14) Effectiveness of anti- and pro-population control policies ................................................................... 45 [407] Part IV The effectiveness of number-power 15) Number-power against the environment ......................................................................................... 48 [433] 16 ) Number-power in society generally ................................................................................................... 50 [463] 17) Number-power in war ....................................................................................................................... 52 [495] 18) Number-power and population control ............................................................................................. .54 [513] DataCrítica: International Journal of Critical Statistics , Vol.1, No.1 Supplement 3 Volume 2, continued Part V Problems arising 19) Theoretical considerations ................................................................................................................... 56 [537] 20) Ethical considerations; (a) cooking the books .................................................................................... 58 [561] 21) Ethical considerations; (b) the Kamikaze conscience .......................................................................... 61 [613] 22) Rationality in human behaviour ......................................................................................................... 64 [643] Part VI Conclusions 23) Possible ways forward .......................................................................................................................... 66 [679] 24) Optimum populations .......................................................................................................................... 69 [717] Original end-matter (Not repeated in Synopsis) (25) Bibliography .............................................................................................................................................. [743] (26) Personal name index .................................................................................................................................... [775] (27) Place index .................................................................................................................................................... [783] (28) Subject index ................................................................................................................................................. [789] (29) Stop press ................................................................................................................................................... [804] Original list of figures (Not reproduced in Synopsis) 1/1 Growth of the human population: AD 0 ……………………………………………………………………....[4] 1/1 Population growth rates and numbers added: 1950s to 2040s ......................................................[7] 1/3 Relationship between population, quality of life, and resources ................................................................ [9] 1/4 Quantity of natural resources ........................................................................................................................[10] /1 Local population competition in South Wales ............................................................................................[263] 14/1 Total fertility rates by ethnic group in Peninsular Malaysia; 1957Ç ............... ..... ................. ... [424] 15/1 The effect of population growth on carbon dioxide emissions ............................................................ [442] 15/2 Historical increase in total human number power against the environment with no increase in technology ................................................................................................................................................. [454] 15/3 Historical increase in individual power against the environment with increased wealth and technology ................................................................................................................................................. [455] 16/1 In-group number factor; historical trend ....................................................................................................[491] 17/1 Decreasing number-power factor vis-à-vis out-groups ...............................................................[508] 19/1 Linkage between number-power, belief, and action ..............................................................................[558] 24/1 Growth curves for the ‘quasi-optimum’ population ..............................................................................[738] 4 DataCrítica: International Journal of Critical Statistics , Vol.1, No.1 Supplement Original list of tables (Not reproduced in Synopsis) 1/1 Inverse relationship between wealth and speed of population growth ............................................[8] 2/1 Competition between fir trees in different conditions ....................................................................[30] 4/1 Number of wars and casualties: World; AD 1500ˆ ......... ................. ................. ......................... [103] /1 Cardiff City’s ranking in terms of number-power ............................................................................[264] 10/2 Attitudes towards population growth in own and other groups ........................................ [295] 19/1 Bibliography search on population competition ......................................................................... [547] /1 Ratios of spending on self to spending on others, via charity ....................................................... [636] Original list of photographs (Not reproduced in Synopsis) 10/1 Soviet ‘Mother-Heroine’ medal ................................................................................................ [283] 11/1 German mothers receiving birth awards .................................................................................... [303] Please note: 1) The text in double square brackets at the beginning and end of each chapter of the Synopsis is copied verbatim from the original chapter’s first page and Conclusions, respectively. 2) The numbers in single square brackets within the Edmund
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