Ian Angus, Simon Butler

Too Many People?

Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis

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Produktbeschreibung

An evocative and well-documented refutation of the idea that overpopulation is at the root of our many environmental problems today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 139mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781608461400
• ISBN-10: 1608461408
• Artikelnr.: 33322126

Autorenporträt

Ian Angus is editor of Climate and Capitalism, an online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. His previous books include Canadian Bolsheviks, and The Global Fight for Climate Justice. Simon Butler, a climate justice activist based in Sydney, Australia, is co-editor of Green Left Weekly, the country's leading source of anti-capitalist news, analysis, discussion and debate.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Population Bomb is Back
1Are People the Problem?
2Varieties of Populationism Today
The Failures of Populationism
3Dissecting those Overpopulation Numbers
4The Carrying Capacity Myth
5The Bomb That Didn't Explode
6Too Many Mouths to Feed?
Control and Coercion
7The Dark History of 20th Century Population Control
8Non-Coercive Population Control?
Greens versus Immigrants?
9Lifeboat Ethics
10Allies, Not Enemies
Production, Consumption, and Revolution
11Too Many Consumers?
12The Myth of Consumer Sovereignty
13The Military-Corporate Polluter Complex
14A System of Growth and Waste
15Population Programs or Ecological Revolution?
Appendices
1The Malthus Myth
2Eugene V. Debs on Immigration
3Donella Meadows on IPAT
4People's Agreement on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
Bibliography
Index