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.
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.
Garrett Hardin is Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of a number of books about ecology, biology, and ethics.
Inhaltsangabe
Part 1: Entangling Alliances 1: The Challenge of Limits 2: Overpopulation: Escape to the Stars? 3: Uneasy Litter Mates: Population and Progress 4: Population Theory: Academia's Stepchild 5: Default Status: making Sense of the World 6: The Ambivalent Triumph of Optimism 7: Cowboy Economics versus Spaceship Ecology 8: Growth: Real and Spurious 9: Exponential Growth of Populations 10: What Malthus Missed 11: The Demostat 12: Generating the Future 13: Limits: A Constrained View 14: From Jevons's Coal to Hubbert's Pimple Part 2: Lookin for the Bluebird 15: Nuclear Power: A Nonsolution 16: Trying to Escape Malthus 17: The Benign Demographic Transition Part 3: Biting the Bullet 18: Making Room for Human Will 19: Major Default Positions of Human Biology 20: Carrying Capacity 21: The Global Pillage: Consequences of Unmanaged Commons 22: Discriminating Altruisms 23: The Double C-Double P Game 24: Birth Control versus Population Control 25: Population Control: Natural versus Human 26: The Necessity of Immigration Control 27: Recapitulation and a Look Ahead Notes and References Index
Part 1: Entangling Alliances 1: The Challenge of Limits 2: Overpopulation: Escape to the Stars? 3: Uneasy Litter Mates: Population and Progress 4: Population Theory: Academia's Stepchild 5: Default Status: making Sense of the World 6: The Ambivalent Triumph of Optimism 7: Cowboy Economics versus Spaceship Ecology 8: Growth: Real and Spurious 9: Exponential Growth of Populations 10: What Malthus Missed 11: The Demostat 12: Generating the Future 13: Limits: A Constrained View 14: From Jevons's Coal to Hubbert's Pimple Part 2: Lookin for the Bluebird 15: Nuclear Power: A Nonsolution 16: Trying to Escape Malthus 17: The Benign Demographic Transition Part 3: Biting the Bullet 18: Making Room for Human Will 19: Major Default Positions of Human Biology 20: Carrying Capacity 21: The Global Pillage: Consequences of Unmanaged Commons 22: Discriminating Altruisms 23: The Double C-Double P Game 24: Birth Control versus Population Control 25: Population Control: Natural versus Human 26: The Necessity of Immigration Control 27: Recapitulation and a Look Ahead Notes and References Index
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