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Think Population Press Announces The Population Fix: Breaking America's Addiction To Population Growth

Posted on: Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 09:00 CDT

Think Population Press today announced the release of Edward C. Hartman's book, The Population Fix: Breaking America's Addiction To Population Growth -- the only book addressing America's mindless march toward a population of one billion as an addiction -- a destructive but treatable addiction.

Alarming, amusing, disarmingly simple and to the point, The Population Fix describes the causes and the effects of America's addiction to population growth. Each chapter concludes with "Quick Fixes," simple steps readers can take to regain control over misguided policies and politics. Each chapter also ends with questions on which readers can reflect or can use in group discussions.

The Population Fix explains why America's exponential population growth is neither desirable nor inevitable. It argues Americans have the right, responsibility, and capability to reverse that growth, and it motivates readers to join hundreds of thousands of others working successfully to reverse America's population growth before we experience one billion Americans.

"America's population grows by more than 30 million people each decade. Builders, farmers, and food processors have become addicts while foreign nations, politicians, and journalists, among others, have become producers, pushers, and enablers of this addiction to population growth," Hartman explains. Who are the victims of this addiction? He names open spaces, wildlife, young people, and taxpayers as just a few of the many victims. He asks, "How many people are 'too many' and who gets to decide? I invite the citizens of this great country to take part in that determination."

Dick Schneider, environmental lecturer and Board Member of Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) says, "So many times we hear the argument that population growth is inevitable and there is nothing we can do about it except treat the symptoms. The Population Fix's analogy to addiction -- a curable condition -- is an antidote to this fatalism."

Edward C. Hartman is a native Californian. Educated through college in San Diego, he served in counterintelligence with the U. S. Army in South Korea. He then returned to earn his postgraduate degree in Northern California universities. He spent 28 years in the telecommunications industry and runs his own financial services business. He lives with his wife in the San Francisco Bay Area. Contact him at 925.376.8680, email info@ThePopulationFix.com, or visit www.ThePopulationFix.com.

To order The Population Fix contact Rayve Productions at 800.852.4890 or write to Rayve Productions, P.O. Box 726, Windsor, CA 95492-0726.

Publication: Summer, 2006

Case bound: 0-9776125-1-1 U.S. $24.50

Trade paper: 0-9776125-0-3 U.S. $18.50

6" x 9", 240 pages

Nature/Environmental Conservation & Protection;

Political Science/Public Policy/General

Jpeg photos of author and book jacket available at www.ThePopulationFix.com.

Source: Business Wire

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