Too Many People?: Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis

A clear, evocative, and well-documented refutation of the idea that overpopulation is at the root of many environmental problems. Introduction  The Population Bomb is Back  1 Are People the Problem?  2 Varieties of Populationism Today  The Failures of Populationism  3 Dissecting those Overpopulation Numbers  4 The Carrying Capacity Myth  5 The Bomb That Didn’t Explode  6 Too Many Mouths to Feed? Control and Coercion  7 The Dark History of 20th Century Population Control  8 Non-Coercive Population Control?  Greens versus Immigrants?  9 Lifeboat Ethics  10 Allies, Not Enemies  Production, Consumption, and Revolution  11 Too Many Consumers?  12 The Myth of Consumer Sovereignty  13 The Military-Corporate Polluter Complex  14 A System of Growth and Waste  15 Population Programs or Ecological Revolution?  Appendices  1 The Malthus Myth  2 Eugene V. Debs on Immigration  3 Donella Meadows on IPAT  4 People’s Agreement on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth  Bibliography Index