LEADER 03984nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910826854303321 005 20240516223200.0 010 $a1-283-55088-1 010 $a9786613863331 010 $a0-8135-5335-0 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813553351 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065425 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000713249 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11461778 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713249 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10657743 035 $a(PQKB)11296167 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC999509 035 $a(OCoLC)809834567 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17502 035 $a(DE-B1597)530266 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813553351 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL999509 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10593852 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL386333 035 $a(OCoLC)961535188 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065425 100 $a20110707d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Malthusian moment$b[electronic resource] $eglobal population growth and the birth of American environmentalism /$fThomas Robertson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick $cRutgers University Press$dc2012 215 $axix, 291 p. $cill 225 0 $aStudies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment 225 0$aStudies in modern science, technology, and the environment 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8135-5271-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-283) and index. 327 $aMalthusianism, eugenics, and carrying capacity in the interwar period -- War and nature: Fairfield Osborn, William Vogt, and the birth of global ecology -- Abundance in a sea of poverty : quality and quantity of life -- "Feed 'em or fight 'em: population and resources on the global frontier during the Cold War -- The "Chinification" of American cities, suburbs, and wilderness -- Paul Ehrlich, the 1960s, and the population bomb -- Strange bedfellows: population politics, 1968-1970 -- We're all in the same boat!?: The disuniting of spaceship earth -- Ronald Reagan, the new right, and population growth. 330 $aAlthough Rachel Carson?s Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in twentieth-century adaptations of Thomas Malthus?s concerns about population growth. For many environmentalists, managing population growth became the key to unlocking the most intractable problems facing Americans after World War II?everything from war and the spread of communism overseas to poverty, race riots, and suburban sprawl at home. Weaving together the international and the domestic in creative new ways, The Malthusian Moment charts the explosion of Malthusian thinking in the United States from World War I to Earth Day 1970, then traces the just-as-surprising decline in concern beginning in the mid-1970's. In addition to offering an unconventional look at World War II and the Cold War through a balanced study of the environmental movement?s most contentious theory, the book sheds new light on some of the big stories of postwar American life: the rise of consumption, the growth of the federal government, urban and suburban problems, the civil rights and women?s movements, the role of scientists in a democracy, new attitudes about sex and sexuality, and the emergence of the ?New Right.? 606 $aOverpopulation$xHistory 606 $aEnvironmentalism$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aOverpopulation$xHistory. 615 0$aEnvironmentalism$xHistory. 676 $a363.9/1 700 $aRobertson$b Thomas$f1967-$01602781 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826854303321 996 $aThe Malthusian moment$93926835 997 $aUNINA