Out of Touch with Reality: Why the World Won’t Blame Overpopulation for Climate Change
- Dr. Karen I. Shragg
- February 25, 2026
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An NPG Book Review
by Karen I. Shragg, Ed.D
February 2026
A REVIEW OF
Envious and Deceived: How Classical Education and Psychanalysis Could Have Saved Us
by J.J. Penniman
Washington, D.C: Academica Press, 2025. 208 pp. plus Glossary
This new book offers consolation and validation to those who have been consistently ignored about the seriousness of the overpopulation issue. With a drawing of poison hemlock on its cover and a title hinting that we have missed our opportunity for saving ourselves, this book by J.J. Penniman fascinates. The perspective he chooses for this deep exploration of two philosophies is from that of a historian, that is if we were looking backward from the future. Before one gets knee-deep into the book, one can sense the great intelligence of the author. Not many can successfully teach themselves both Latin and Greek in order to master a topic. Penniman did just that. The author asks himself deeply introspective questions and develops an analysis that stuns and often overwhelms, all the while leading us on paths of new ways of thinking, which is the most noble of goals for any non-fiction book…
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Dr. Karen I. Shragg is an overpopulation activist, speaker, and author of the new book Move Upstream: A Call to Solve Overpopulation (Free Thought House Press, 2015). A naturalist and director of Wood Lake Nature Center in Richfield, Minnesota, Dr. Shragg is also the author of many other titles including the Nature’s Yucky children’s book series.
