Living Within Limits
Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 8 June 1995
- ISBN 9780195093858
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 229x155x22 mm
- Weight 540 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures 0
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Short description:
This book tackles the problem of overpopulation with an honesty and fearlessness that is unrivalled. Hardin suggests radical approaches to overpopulation and considers the consequences. This book is an intellectual feast that will enrage, disturb, and challenge the reader at every page.
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Population is a prominent topic of debate following the world conference at the end of last year. This book tackles the problem of overpopulation with an honesty and fearlessness that is unrivalled, and makes a forceful case for dramatically changing the way we live in, and manage, our world. Hardin suggests radical approaches to overpopulation and points out that the choices are hard, but we must not be afraid to carry out forceful solutions in order to better our world in the future.
Wonderfully rich in original ideas and insights... compelling... A rare intellectual feast that challenges, charms, and engages the reader... A book that will be widely read and is bound to be enduringly influential.
Table of Contents:
Entangling Alliances
The Challenge of Limits
Overpopulation: Escape to the Stars?
Uneasy Litter Mates: Population and Progress
Population Theory: Academia's Stepchild
Default Status: making Sense of the World
The Ambivalent Triumph of Optimism
Cowboy Economics versus Spaceship Ecology
Growth: Real and Spurious
Exponential Growth of Populations
What Malthus Missed
The Demostat
Generating the Future
Limits: A Constrained View
From Jevons's Coal to Hubbert's Pimple
Lookin for the Bluebird
Nuclear Power: A Nonsolution
Trying to Escape Malthus
The Benign Demographic Transition
Biting the Bullet
Making Room for Human Will
Major Default Positions of Human Biology
Carrying Capacity
The Global Pillage: Consequences of Unmanaged Commons
Discriminating Altruisms
The Double C-Double P Game
Birth Control versus Population Control
Population Control: Natural versus Human
The Necessity of Immigration Control
Recapitulation and a Look Ahead
Notes and References
Index
