Sixty-three basal high school textbooks from 18 publishers were reviewed to determine their treatment of population growth, resources, environmental problems, economic development, and "package" handling of these limits-to-growth (LTG) topics. The textbooks included 21 U.S. histories, 9 economics texts, 5 civics texts, and approximately (there is overlap between the categories) 15 geographies and 13 world histories. The key criteria employed in the review were objectivity and adequacy. Adequacy is defined as the quality of what is offered (e.g., Are there factual errors? Are materials outdated?). General impressions are discussed and detailed findings are presented for each topic. Regarding adequacy, most of the texts contain misinformation and sloppy writing. For example, although 52 of the textbooks reviewed have 1980's publication dates, none alludes to the fact that the world's population rate has declined. Most texts were also found to have a lack of objectivity that was associated with a sense of urgency to change students' attitudes and behavior. Of the 63 texts, 4 made no reference to any LTG topic. The most commonly treated topics were energy (in 48 texts), environmental problems (in 46), and population (in 42). Only the energy crisis is treated in a balanced, informative way by a significant number of textbooks. (RM)