Beschreibung:
Too Many People? provides a clear, well-documented, and popularly written refutation of the idea that "overpopulation" is a major cause of environmental destruction, arguing that a focus on human numbers not only misunderstands the causes of the crisis, it dangerously weakens the movement for real solutions.
Introduction The Population Bomb is Back 1 Are People the Problem? 2 Varieties of Populationism Today The Failures of Populationism 3 Dissecting those Overpopulation Numbers 4 The Carrying Capacity Myth 5 The Bomb That Didn't Explode 6 Too Many Mouths to Feed?Control and Coercion 7 The Dark History of 20th Century Population Control 8 Non-Coercive Population Control? Greens versus Immigrants? 9 Lifeboat Ethics 10 Allies, Not Enemies Production, Consumption, and Revolution 11 Too Many Consumers? 12 The Myth of Consumer Sovereignty 13 The Military-Corporate Polluter Complex 14 A System of Growth and Waste 15 Population Programs or Ecological Revolution? Appendices 1 The Malthus Myth 2 Eugene V. Debs on Immigration 3 Donella Meadows on IPAT 4 People's Agreement on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth BibliographyIndex