Books

Review: OUR PLUNDERED PLANET, by Fairfield Osborn, Pyramid, 176 pp, $0.75 paper. Merely the fact that this book could have been written in 1948 — and largely ignored until quite recently — is telling. It is even more telling to update, or compare the 1948 predictions of coming problems with the 1969 actuality; e.g., in 1948 Osborn stated with some horror that the population of the world could be expected to reach three billion by the end of the twentieth century.