Too Many People? : Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis

Butler, Simon Angus, Ian

Too Many People? : Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis text Ian Angus and Simon Butler. - Chicago, IL Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution 2011 Chicago, IL Haymarket Books ; 2011 - 266 p. PBK

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-258) and index.



Are people the problem? -- Varieties of populationism today -- Dissecting those "overpopulation" numbers -- Is the world full? -- The bomb that didn't explode -- Too many mouths to feed? -- The populationist war against the poor -- Control without coercion? -- Lifeboat ethics -- Allies, not enemies -- Too many consumers? -- The myth of consumer sovereignty -- The military-corporate pollution complex -- A system of growth and waste -- Populationism or ecological revolution?

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Emigration and immigration - Government policy
Population - Environmental aspects
Overpopulation
Population policy

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