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The purpose of this important book is to encourage individual and group choice-making for effective participation in building a better future. It is designed to involve the reader in thinking about the most important challenges facing the human race and identifying which priorities should require action. Each chapter contains though-provoking questions and activities intended to stimulate readers to examine their own beliefs and values relative to making decisions about what they want for the future. The Future: Important Choices is the only book written as an introductory or supplemental text for college and university courses on future studies. It is also the only book written for general readers that succinctly summarizes major future world issues. Differing views of population growth, food needs, environmental problems, war and peace, nationalism and world government, and capitalism versus collectivism are examined.
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The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANZI Z39.481984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Weldon, Lynn L.
The future: important choices / Lynn L. Weldon.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0-87081-369-2 (acid-free paper: pbk.)
1. Twenty-first centuryForecasts. I. Title.
CB161.W45 1995
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Contents
1. Important Future Choices
1
Questions About the Future
1
Predicting the Future
2
National Power and the United Nations
3
A Huge Spaceship (a Science Fiction Story of the Future)
4
Do We Need a World Government?
5
How Adequate Is the United Nations?
7
Over the Waterfall?
7
Nationalism Versus a Governed World
8
Planetary Priorities
9
Planetary Programs
10
A UFO Visit
11
Future Survival Issues
11
For Further Reading
11
2. The Population Problem
13
The Population Explosion Charted
13
Some Population Facts
14
Who Has the Worst Population Problem?
18
How Many People Should We Have?
19
What Forces Are Causing the Population Explosion?
20
Effects of the Population Explosion
22
What Types of Population Control Programs Are Possible?
22
How Adequate and Effective Are Voluntary Family Planning Programs?
25
Are Compulsory Government Population Control Programs Needed?
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