03138nam 2200541Ia 450 991081108620332120200520144314.01-280-44202-60-19-802403-7(CKB)1000000000702306(EBL)241226(OCoLC)475955622(SSID)ssj0000362608(PQKBManifestationID)12118748(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000362608(PQKBWorkID)10380908(PQKB)11522838(MiAaPQ)EBC241226(EXLCZ)99100000000070230619920616d1993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLiving within limits ecology, economics, and population taboos /Garrett Hardin1st ed.New York Oxford University Press19931 online resource (350 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-507811-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index.Contents; 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; 15. Nuclear Power: A Nonsolution; 16. Trying to Escape Malthus17. The Benign Demographic Transition18. 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; IndexWe fail to mandate economic sanity, writes Garrett Hardin, ""because our brains are addled by...compassion."" With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology for decades, winning a reputation as a fearless and original thinker. A prominent biologist, ecological philosopher, and keen student of human population control, Hardin now offers the finest summation of his work to date, with an eloquent argument for accepting the limits of the earth's resources--and the hard choices we must make to live within them. In Living Within Limits, Hardin focuses on the negBirth controlPopulationBirth control.Population.304.6/66Hardin Garrett James1915-2003.12553MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811086203321Living within Limits4033127UNINA