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Review title: What was the editor thinking?
Product review: It is ironic that the author spends so much time on meandering critiques of the failures of human communication and other ancillary matters, and manages to publish such a poorly edited, bloviating, and disorganized piece of demagoguery.Like other reviewers, I was already "convinced" of what I assumed to be the author's central thesis; that human overpopulation is a largely unaddressed crisis that demands new and radical solutions. Unfortunately, the author's self-importance seems to get in the way of his ability to even frame his own position. His "Martian man" perspective comes up now and again but is not adopted with any rigor, merely tossed about in a sea of observational rhetoric unbacked by empirical evidence. I get the impression that this is the kind of book that an ivory-tower version of Jerry Seinfeld would write on overpopulation.Good popular literature on the topic of overpopulation is badly needed. Unfortunately this unreadable book widely misses the mark.
