Who Sees Over-population as the Root of Developing-Nation Ills?
The use of environmental determinism to link developing world ills to the environmental effects of over-population did not start here. A large bibliography (97W2) lists many dozens of titles that do just that. Many other references ((99W2), (98H2), (00C1), (94H1) and dozens of reports and books by Worldwatch Institute) present voluminous data on the same issue. The belief that over-population, not bad government, is the root of the ills of developing nations has been gaining far broader acceptance in recent decades. Publications of such organizations as the CIA (00C1), the RAND Corporation (98B1), (00A1), (00N1), (00U1), the National Security Agency and Worldwatch Institute (in numerous publications) see developing world ills in terms of environmental-determinism theory and over-population. For example, the CIA (00C1) notes that a key driving trend for the Middle East in the next 15 years will be population pressure. They point out that, even now, in nearly all Middle Eastern countries
