The Ehrlichs did describe these coercive methods in their 1977 textbook, Ecoscience: Population, Resouces, Environment but they did not endorse them, saying, " A far better choice, in our view, is to expand the use of milder methods of influencing family size preferences, while redoubling efforts to ensure that the means of birth control, including abortion and sterilization, are accessible to every human being on Earth within the shortest possible time.

The Ehrlichs regret the choice of title, which they admit was a perfect choice from a marketing perspective, but think that " it led Paul to be miscategorized as solely focused on human numbers, despite our interest in all the factors affecting the human trajectory.

Barry Commoner argued that the Ehrlichs were too focused on overpopulation as the source of environmental problems, and that their proposed solutions were politically unacceptable because of the coercion that they implied, and because the cost would fall disproportionately on the poor.

Still other commentators have criticized the Ehrlichs ' perceived inability to acknowledge mistakes, evasiveness, and refusal to alter their arguments in the face of contrary evidence.

The Ehrlichs stand by the basic ideas in the book, stating in 2009 that " perhaps the most serious flaw in The Bomb was that it was much too optimistic about the future " and believe that it achieved their goals because " it alerted people to the importance of environmental issues and brought human numbers into the debate on the human future.

Although the Ehrlichs collaborated on the book, the publisher insisted that a single author be credited, and also asked to change their preferred title: Population, Resources, and Environment.

The Peace Corps can either begin in very low gear, with only preparatory work undertaken between now and when Congress finally appropriates special funds for it -- or it can be launched now and in earnest by executive action, with sufficient funds and made available from existing Mutual Security appropriations to permit a number of substantial projects to start this summer.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

Additional class 2, assignments for daytime operation can be made without causing destructive interference to the class 1, stations or to each other, and by their operation provide additional service on these channels and additional local outlets for a large number of communities.

Such additional daytime class 2, assignments are appropriate if optimum use is to be made of these frequencies, and the Commission has over the years made a large number of them.

In order to reduce the number of variable parameters, all experiments were made with a constant arc length of 0.5'' '' and a current of 100 Aj.

So a quick count could be made at any time, even by an illiterate clerk, of the number of registered persons in four age-and-sex classes.

The entire group of managers explained, in great detail, a number of human relations errors that he made.

This Europeanization of the law was made explicit by a number of 19th century scholars.

In the parapsychology foundation's long-range experiment, readings are made by a variety of sensitives for a large number of cooperating sitters, trying to throw light on this question of the significance of mediumistic statements.

The cowboy made a technical distinction in reference to the number of them animals.

Melies, however, out of his professional instincts as a magician, discovered and made use of a number of illusionary techniques that remain part of the vocabulary of film.

Before adjournment Monday afternoon, the Senate is expected to approve a study of the number of legislators allotted to rural and urban areas to determine what adjustments should be made.

The new formula for filling staff positions in the Secretariat is one of a number of recommendations made by a panel of eight in a long and detailed report.

He made his fortune during World War 2, when he took over a number of dying steel plants and kept them alive until the boom.

This central charge would thus be approximately half the atomic weight ( though it was almost 25 % off the figure for the atomic number in gold ( Z = 79, A = 197 ), the single element from which Rutherford made his guess ).

In many cases such a selection can be made without invoking the axiom of choice ; this is in particular the case if the number of bins is finite, or if a selection rule is available: a distinguishing property that happens to hold for exactly one object in each bin.

Wallace was one of the leading evolutionary thinkers of the 19th century and made a number of other contributions to the development of evolutionary theory besides being co-discoverer of natural selection.

Supporting literature includes: the work of social impact theory, which discusses persuasion in part through the number of persons engaging in influence ; as well as studies made on the relative influence of communicator credibility in different kinds of persuasion ; and examinations of the trustworthiness of the speaker.

The arrangement which Andronicus made of Aristotle's writings seems to be the one which forms the basis of our present editions and we are probably indebted to him for the preservation of a large number of Aristotle's works.

He made substantial contributions in many areas, the most important being his discovery of profound connections between algebraic geometry and number theory.

After the tumultuous and disappointing 2007 season, the Falcons made a number of moves, hiring a new General Manager and head coach, drafting a new starting quarterback, and signing a starting running back.

A zone was a subdivision of the network that made sense to humans ( for example, " Accounting Department "); but while a network number had to be assigned to a topologically-contiguous section of the network, a zone could include several different discontiguous portions of the network.

A number of fats and oils made from animals served to cook much of the colonial foods.

He made a number of Madonnas, single religious figures, and small scenes with comic peasant figures.

The symposium provides an opportunity to confront the self with specific statements which were made at particular times by identifiable communicators who were addressing definite audiences -- and throughout several hundred pages everyone is talking about the same key symbol of identification.

The Government of India further agrees in cooperation with the Government of the United States, to coordinate the use of grant and loan funds provided for in paragraphs 1 ( B ) and 1 ( C ) of Article 2, with such direct dollar assistance as may be made available by the Government of the United States of America, so that both sources of financing may be channeled to specific and clearly identifiable economic development programs and projects.

Even beginning students in linguistics are made familiar with an appreciable variety of consonant systems, both in their general outlines and in many specific details.

The extent of adaptations to specific ecological circumstances among amphibians is remarkable, with many discoveries still being made.

Amino acids (,, or ) are biologically important molecules made from amine (- NH < sub > 2 </ sub >) and carboxylic acid (- COOH ) functional groups, along with a side-chain specific to each amino acid.

New York also has specific laws against Hazing when such threats are made as requirement to join an organization.

29 .</ ref > This tendency to identify one specific underlying reality made up of a material thing constitutes the bulk of the contributions for which Anaximenes is most famed.

" In the 1999 South Carolina Supreme Court case State v. Gaines, the Court held that Alford guilty pleas were to be held valid in the absence of a specific on-the-record ruling that the pleas were voluntary – provided that the sentencing judge acted appropriately in accordance with the rules for acceptance of a plea made voluntarily by the defendant.

Over the course of military history, projectiles were manufactured from a wide variety of materials, made in a wide variety of shapes, and used different means of inflicting physical damage and casualties to defeat specific types of targets.

A residual devise is one left to a devisee after all specific and general devices have been made.

The threats made against Jerusalem, however, are much more specific than the oracles concerning foreign nations.

His solution was the concept of “ alternative location ,” in which a particular subject could be put in more than one place, as long as the library made a specific choice and used it consistently.

Links in this article to specific axioms of set theory describe some of the relationships between the informal discussion here and the formal axiomatization of set theory, but no attempt is made to justify every statement on such a basis.

In the intervening years, the social world of music had seen dramatic changes: international publication and touring had grown explosively, concert societies were beginning to be formed, notation had been made more specific, more descriptive, and schematics for works had been simplified ( yet became more varied in their exact working out ).

A link is often assumed, yet there is no reference made to Jesus Christ or Christianity or any other specific religion.

It has made progress in understanding how damage to particular areas of the brain affect cognition, and it has helped to uncover the root causes and results of specific dysfunction, such as dyslexia, anopia, and hemispatial neglect.

Semiconductor devices, such as transistors, are made possible largely by putting different semiconductor dopants into different places, in specific patterns.

Many players, in order to eliminate the confusion of tossing four chips to the center of the table or having change made while bets are being placed, will make a five-unit Horn High bet, which is a four-way bet with the extra unit going to one specific number.

Although maps are often made in one specific language, place names often differ between languages.

In terms of its value as a collector's item, a coin is generally made more or less valuable by its condition, specific historical significance, rarity, quality / beauty of the design and general popularity with collectors.

In there is a specific prophecy that the sea will ".. be healed and made fresh ", becoming a normal lake capable of supporting marine life.

Nevertheless, there has been persistent controversy over their health safety, and some national and international agencies have made specific recommendations about exposure.

This confusion made by psychologism ( and related disciplines such as biologism and anthropologism ) can be due to three specific prejudices:

Despite considerable research efforts by seismologists, scientifically reproducible predictions cannot yet be made to a specific day or month.

A meal is made up of food which is prepared to be eaten at a specific time and place.