Population
Glass, B.
American Journal of Pharmacy and the Sciences Supporting Public Health 140(3): 69-74
1968
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9467 PMID: 5694031 DOI: 10.1021/cen-v046n043.p118Document Number: 521128
Only a couple of decades ago, you could aptly say that population growth, unlike the weather, was something few people talked about but almost everyone tried to do something about. No longer. During the past 10 years, in fact, discussion of population problems has expanded exponentially. Fertility control- or, as people working in the field prefer to call it, family planning- is no longer as controversial or politically sensitive an issue as it was just a decade ago. "Next to the pursuit of peace," says President Lyndon B. Johnson, "the really great challenge to the human family is the race between food supply and population increase."What's more, talk is increasingly being transformed into action. In the early 1950's only India among the world's underdeveloped lands had an official family planning program under way, and its efforts then were inconsequential. Today, roughly two thirds of the population of the underdeveloped regions- where population growth is most rapid and.
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