The War Against Population
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Author | : Jacqueline Rorabeck Kasun |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780898707120 |
Challenges the assumption that unchecked human population growth will lead to social and economic disaster.
Author | : Jacqueline Rorabeck Kasun |
Publisher | : Jameson Books (IL) |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1987-03-01 |
Genre | : Federal aid to family planning |
ISBN | : 9780915463183 |
Author | : Paul R. Ehrlich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781568495873 |
Author | : Alison Bashford |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2014-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 023114766X |
Concern about the size of the world’s population did not begin with the Baby Boomers. Overpopulation as a conceptual problem originated after World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. This study traces the idea of a world population problem as it developed from the 1920s through the 1950s, long before the late-1960s notion of a postwar “population bomb.” Drawing on international conference transcripts, the volume reconstructs the twentieth-century discourse on population as an international issue concerned with migration, colonial expansion, sovereignty, and globalization. It connects the genealogy of population discourse to the rise of economically and demographically defined global regions, the characterization of “civilizations” with different standards of living, global attitudes toward “development,” and first- and third-world designations.
Author | : Betsy Hartmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Birth control |
ISBN | : 9781608467334 |
With a new preface, this feminist classic reveals the dangers of contemporary population-control tactics, especially for women in developing countries.
Author | : Matthew Connelly |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2010-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 067426276X |
Fatal Misconception is the disturbing story of our quest to remake humanity by policing national borders and breeding better people. As the population of the world doubled once, and then again, well-meaning people concluded that only population control could preserve the “quality of life.” This movement eventually spanned the globe and carried out a series of astonishing experiments, from banning Asian immigration to paying poor people to be sterilized. Supported by affluent countries, foundations, and non-governmental organizations, the population control movement experimented with ways to limit population growth. But it had to contend with the Catholic Church’s ban on contraception and nationalist leaders who warned of “race suicide.” The ensuing struggle caused untold suffering for those caught in the middle—particularly women and children. It culminated in the horrors of sterilization camps in India and the one-child policy in China. Matthew Connelly offers the first global history of a movement that changed how people regard their children and ultimately the face of humankind. It was the most ambitious social engineering project of the twentieth century, one that continues to alarm the global community. Though promoted as a way to lift people out of poverty—perhaps even to save the earth—family planning became a means to plan other people‘s families. With its transnational scope and exhaustive research into such archives as Planned Parenthood and the newly opened Vatican Secret Archives, Connelly’s withering critique uncovers the cost inflicted by a humanitarian movement gone terribly awry and urges renewed commitment to the reproductive rights of all people.
Author | : Greg Graffin |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250017629 |
A new perspective on the biological roots of competition from the author of Anarchy Evolution and Cornell lecturer
Author | : Michael M. Andregg |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0761367152 |
October 31, 2011, marked an uneasy milestone for Planet Earth. On this day, the global population surpassed seven billion. What does that mean for a world that, until the nineteenth century, was home to less than one billion people? Experts say it means the planet is in trouble. Some wonder if Earth will even be able to sustain human life at its current rate of growth. Will there be enough food for everyone? Will conflicts over land increase? How will the environment be affected? Can humanity survive the predicted disasters? More than a simple case of running out of space, the population crisis is interwoven with a host of other issues?from climate change and resource management to war, disease, and poverty. Discover how all these factors converge to place an entire planet in crisis mode?and explore what sort of responses that crisis may require.
Author | : Jeff Halper |
Publisher | : Pluto Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780745334301 |
War Against the People focuses on Israel's unique role in international affairs, highlighting how it promotes a global system of militarism and domestic control – a form of "global Palestine." Jeff Halper investigates how Israel exports the weaponry and techniques of occupation. He shows how it uses the West Bank and Gaza as a "laboratory" for the development of these weapons, instruments of population control and models of permanent pacification. These are used not only to armies but internal security agencies and police forces as well. Halper locates Israel's system of pacification within the broader project of global "transcapital pacification." War Against the People provides a valuable window into the workings of pacification on a global level and the latest in military and counter-insurgency doctrine, outlining critical aspects of global politics that activists often miss in their struggle for global justice.
Author | : Darrell Bricker |
Publisher | : Signal |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2019-02-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0771050895 |
From the authors of the bestselling The Big Shift, a provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape. For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning planetary population will soon overwhelm the earth's resources. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different kind of alarm. Rather than growing exponentially, they argue, the global population is headed for a steep decline. Throughout history, depopulation was the product of catastrophe: ice ages, plagues, the collapse of civilizations. This time, however, we're thinning ourselves deliberately, by choosing to have fewer babies than we need to replace ourselves. In much of the developed and developing world, that decline is already underway, as urbanization, women's empowerment, and waning religiosity lead to smaller and smaller families. In Empty Planet, Ibbitson and Bricker travel from South Florida to Sao Paulo, Seoul to Nairobi, Brussels to Delhi to Beijing, drawing on a wealth of research and firsthand reporting to illustrate the dramatic consequences of this population decline--and to show us why the rest of the developing world will soon join in. They find that a smaller global population will bring with it a number of benefits: fewer workers will command higher wages; good jobs will prompt innovation; the environment will improve; the risk of famine will wane; and falling birthrates in the developing world will bring greater affluence and autonomy for women. But enormous disruption lies ahead, too. We can already see the effects in Europe and parts of Asia, as aging populations and worker shortages weaken the economy and impose crippling demands on healthcare and social security. The United States is well-positioned to successfully navigate these coming demographic shifts--that is, unless growing isolationism and anti-immigrant backlash lead us to close ourselves off just as openness becomes more critical to our survival than ever before. Rigorously researched and deeply compelling, Empty Planet offers a vision of a future that we can no longer prevent--but one that we can shape, if we choose.