Synopses & Reviews
This scientifically rigorous and philosophically sophisticated defense of environmentalism is meant to excite, educate, and alarm the reader. There is a widespread scientific and public recognition that the world is facing an environmental crisis of vast proportions. What is the relationship between the growth of human population and industrial activity on one hand and the environmental crisis on the other? If this is not determined and dealt with, Earth's ecology may be expected to collapse.
Review
The answers may not be comforting, and one may disagree, but the arguments are well made.Population and Environment
Synopsis
This scientifically rigorous and philosophically sophisticated defense of environmentalism against economics-based criticism and technological optimism is meant to excite, educate, and alarm the reader.
Synopsis
This scientifically rigorous and philosophically sophisticated
Synopsis
defense of environmentalism against economics-based criticism and technological optimism is meant to excite, educate, and alarm the reader.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-198) and index.
About the Author
JOSEPH WAYNE SMITH is Senior Research Fellow in Geography at the University of Adelaide in Australia.GRAHAM LYONS is a leading Adelaide businessman, cattle rancher, and environmentalist.GARY SAUER-THOMPSON is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at The Flinders University of South Australia.
Table of Contents
Preface
A Wounded World: Can Civilization Be Sustained?
Global Meltdown: Population Growth and Environmental Destruction
The Unreasonable Silence of the World: Postmodernity and the Crisis of Philosophy, Science and Knowledge
Economic Irrationalism: Against Cosmopolitan Economics
Endgame: Healing a Wounded World
Bibliography
Index