| Description |
x, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Part One: 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 vs. 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 Two: Looking for the Bluebird -- 15. Nuclear power: A non-solution -- 16. Trying to escape Malthus -- 17. The benign demographic transition -- Part Three: 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 vs. population control -- 25. Population control: Natural vs. human -- 26. The necessity of immigration control -- 27. Recapitulation: And a look ahead -- Notes and references -- Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index. |
| Subject |
Birth control.
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Population.
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| Indexed Term |
Humans Population |
| Subject |
Family Planning Services.
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| ISBN |
019507811X (acid-free paper) : $25.00 |
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