The Malthusian moment : global population growth and the birth of American environmentalism / / Thomas Robertson.

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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment
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Physical Description:xix, 291 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Malthusianism, eugenics, and carrying capacity in the interwar period
  • War and nature: Fairfield Osborn, William Vogt, and the birth of global ecology
  • Abundance in a sea of poverty : quality and quantity of life
  • "Feed 'em or fight 'em: population and resources on the global frontier during the Cold War
  • The "Chinification" of American cities, suburbs, and wilderness
  • Paul Ehrlich, the 1960s, and the population bomb
  • Strange bedfellows: population politics, 1968-1970
  • We're all in the same boat!?: The disuniting of spaceship earth
  • Ronald Reagan, the new right, and population growth.