AN INQUIRY INTO THE HUMAN PROSPECT by ROBERT L. HEILBRONER 150 pages. Norton. $5.95.
This short, urgent essay on the world's chances for survival has all the cheerfulness of a medical warning de livered to a middle-aged man after a bad checkup. "Slow down," Doc Heilbroner in effect says to the human race. "You're not the kid you once were. You can't burn the candle at both ends any more maybe not even at one end, the way your energy resources are going. And you'll have to trim down that population bulge. Keep...
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