The Malthusian Moment : : Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism / / Thomas Robertson.
Although Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in twentieth-century adaptations of Thomas Malthus's concerns about popula...
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Robertson, Thomas, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Malthusian Moment : Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism / Thomas Robertson. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (316 p.) : 12 illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: From Rubbish to Riots -- 1. Malthusianism, Eugenics, and Carrying Capacity in the Interwar Period -- 2. War and Nature: Fairfield Osborn, William Vogt, and the Birth of Global Ecology -- 3. Abundance in a Sea of Poverty: Quality and Quantity of Life -- 4. "Feed 'Em or Fight 'Em": Population and Resources on the Global Frontier during the Cold War -- 5. The "Chinification" of American Cities, Suburbs, and Wilderness -- 6. Paul Ehrlich, the 1960s, and the Population Bomb -- 7. Strange Bedfellows: Population Politics, 1968-1970 -- 8. We're All in the Same Boat?!: The Disuniting of Spaceship Earth -- 9. Ronald Reagan, the New Right, and Population Growth -- Conclusion. The Power and Pitfalls of Biology -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Although Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in twentieth-century adaptations of Thomas Malthus's concerns about population growth. For many environmentalists, managing population growth became the key to unlocking the most intractable problems facing Americans after World War II-everything from war and the spread of communism overseas to poverty, race riots, and suburban sprawl at home. Weaving together the international and the domestic in creative new ways, The Malthusian Moment charts the explosion of Malthusian thinking in the United States from World War I to Earth Day 1970, then traces the just-as-surprising decline in concern beginning in the mid-1970s. In addition to offering an unconventional look at World War II and the Cold War through a balanced study of the environmental movement's most contentious theory, the book sheds new light on some of the big stories of postwar American life: the rise of consumption, the growth of the federal government, urban and suburban problems, the civil rights and women's movements, the role of scientists in a democracy, new attitudes about sex and sexuality, and the emergence of the "New Right." Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Environmentalism History United States United States. Environmentalism United States History. Overpopulation History. NATURE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110688610 print 9780813552712 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813553351 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813553351 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813553351.jpg |
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