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From: tdh@frog.UUCP (T. Dave Hudson)
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Subject: Re: Nuclear power: Petr Beckmann
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> This volume was reviewed in the February 1985 *Bulletin of the Atomic
> Scientists* by the respected biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich.  Here
> is what they said about Beckmann's contributions:

>  Beckmann's chapter on coal contains a variety of confused assertions,
>  one of which is that "in the United States, for example, the
>  fertility rate has dropped below the `Zero Population Growth' level,
>  but its population is still expanding." ...

(I don't have the figures.)  It might possibly be a false assertion,
but it is not a confused assertion.  Last I heard, ZPG did not attempt
to take immigration into account.

				David Hudson