[PDF] The Population Bomb eBook

Author : Emily Klancher Merchant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 2021
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 0197558941

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'Building the Population Bomb' carefully examines how the rise of the world's human population came to be understood as problematic by scientists and governments across the globe. It challenges our assumption of population growth as inherently problematic by demonstrating how it is our anxieties over population growth - and not population growth itself - that have detracted from the pursuit of economic, environmental, and reproductive justice.

Author : Carole R. McCann
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 029599911X

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Figuring the Population Bomb traces the genealogy of twentieth-century demographic “facts” that created a mathematical panic about a looming population explosion. This narrative was popularized in the 1970s in Paul Ehrlich’s best-selling book The Population Bomb, which pathologized population growth in the Global South by presenting a doomsday scenario of widespread starvation resulting from that growth. Carole McCann uses an archive of foundational texts, disciplinary histories, participant reminiscences, and organizational records to reveal the gendered geopolitical grounds of the specialized mathematical culture, bureaucratic organization, and intertextual hierarchy that gave authority to the concept of population explosion. These demographic theories and measurement practices ignited the population “crisis” and moved nations to interfere in women’s reproductive lives. Figuring the Population Bomb concludes that mid-twentieth-century demographic figures remain authoritative to this day in framing the context of transnational feminist activism for reproductive justice.

Author : Libby Robin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0300188471

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This anthology provides an historical overview of the scientific ideas behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy, and public perception. Through an array of texts and commentaries that examine the themes of progress, population, environment, biodiversity and sustainability from a global perspective, it explores the meaning of the future in the twenty-first century. Providing access and reference points to the origins and development of key disciplines and methods, it will encourage policy makers, professionals, and students to reflect on the roots of their own theories and practices.

Author : P. H. Liotta
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1612341071

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Cities out of control.

Author : John Becklake
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Birth control
ISBN : 9780749601218

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Discusses our continually increasing population, its causes and consequences, and efforts by governments and individuals to control its growth.

Author : Pierre Desrochers
Publisher : Gwpf Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9780993119033

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Many scholars, writers, activists and policy-makers have linked growth in population to environmental degradation, especially catastrophic climate change. In the last few years, however, a number of writers and academics have documented significant improvements in human wellbeing, pointing to longer lifespans, improved health, abundant resources and a general improvement in the environment. Population Bombed! addresses the main shortcomings of arguments advanced by both population control advocates and optimistic writers, explaining how economic prosperity and a cleaner environment are the direct results of both population growth and humanity's increased use of fossil fuels and showing how campaigns against the spread of fossil fuels will cause misery in the developing world, fuel poverty in advanced economies, and will inevitably wreak havoc on the natural world.

Author : Alison Bashford
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 023114766X

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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.