عنوان

The ostrich factor :

شابک

0585111952

شابک

9780585111957

شابک اشتباه

0195122747

شابک اشتباه

9780195122749

شماره

b782942

عنوان اصلي

The ostrich factor :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

our population myopia /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Garrett Hardin.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Oxford University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1999.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (viii, 168 pages)

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index.

متن يادداشت

Pursuit of objectivity -- Tertullian's blessing -- How to lie with learned words -- Foundations of activist dcience: By right or by default? -- Stormy marriage of economics and ecology -- Consequentialism: Nature's morality -- Natural selection: God's choice -- Altruism -- Coercion -- Diseconomies of scale: Ostrich myopia -- Dream of one world -- Russell's theorem -- Martian view of Malthus -- Equity, equality, and affirmative action -- Multiculturalism: For and against -- Ambivalent value of growth -- Extended reach of Gresham's law -- Summary: Can our ostriches find the will? -- Notes.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

Garrett Hardin, one of our leading thinkers on problems of human overpopulation, here assails the recklessness and basic ecological ignorance of economists and others who champion the idea of unbounded growth. Hardin delivers an uncompromising critique of mainstream economic thinking. Science has long understood the limits of our environment, he notes, and yet economists consistently turn a blind eye to one feature we share with all of our planer's inhabitants -- the potential for irreversible environmental damage through overcrowding. And as humankind draws ever closer to its goat of conquering our final natural enemy -- disease -- the fallacy of sustainable unchecked population growth becomes more and more dangerous. Moreover, Hardin argues, rampant growth will soon force us to face many issues that we will find quite unpalatable -- most notably, that since volunteer population control will not work, we wilt have to turn to "democratic coercion" or "mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon" to limit growth, a policy that directly threatens long cherished personal rights. Challenging an array of powerful taboos, Hardin takes aim at sacred cows on both sides of the political fence -- affirmative action, multiculturalism, current immigration policies, and the greed and excess of big business and "growth intoxicated industrialists". Hardin's forceful and cogent argument for the union of ecology and economics is a must for anyone concerned with the goat of a bountiful yet sustainable world. Sure to spark controversy, this book underscores the urgency of our situation and reveals practical steps we must take to ensure the long term survival of humankind.

عنوان

Ostrich factor.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

0195122747

موضوع مستند نشده

Population-- Environmental aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

Quality of life.

موضوع مستند نشده

Population-- Aspect de l'environnement.

موضوع مستند نشده

Qualité de la vie.

موضوع مستند نشده

Population-- Environmental aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

Quality of life.

موضوع مستند نشده

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Human Geography.

موضوع مستند نشده

SOC-- 015000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Hardin, Garrett,1915-2003.

تاريخ عمليات

20201206212340.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y