Population politics : the choices that shape our future /
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| Author / Creator: | Abernethy, Virginia |
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| Imprint: | New York : Insight Books, c1993. |
| Description: | xix, 350 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1462401 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the Transaction Edition
- Foreword to the 1993 Edition
- Preface to the 1993 Edition
- I.. Framing the Issues
- 1.. Growth: Why We Love It
- 2.. A Global Dilemma
- II.. Why Growth Flies out of Control
- 3.. Belief as Part of the Problem
- 4.. Cultural Brakes
- 5.. Where to Look for Balance
- 6.. Which Incentives?
- 7.. Development Alone May Spur Population Growth
- 8.. Culture: Make or Break
- III.. The Big Picture: Politics, Incentives, and Strategies
- 9.. One-World: A Global Folly
- 10.. Potlatching Twentieth-Century Style
- 11.. Helping While Not Harming
- 12.. Conservation, Incentives, and Ethics
- 13.. Limiting Factors
- IV.. America: Past and Future
- 14.. Kissing the Blarney Stone and Other Tales
- 15.. History Does Not Stop
- 16.. The Path to Poverty
- 17.. All Our People
- 18.. The Carrying Capacity of the United States
- 19.. And Away We Go
- 20.. Let Freedom Ring
- 21.. Taking Hold
- Bibliography
- Index