Living within Limits : Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos.
We 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, ec...
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1995.
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Table of 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 Malthus.