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One with Nineveh : politics, consumption, and the human future / Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich.
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View onlineLippincott Library HC79.E5 E354 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ehrlich, Paul R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable development.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Overpopulation.
- Social justice.
- Physical Description:
- 447 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, [2004]
- Summary:
- In "One with Nineveh, acclaimed writers Paul and Anne Ehrlich explore how overpopulation, overconsumption, and political and economic inequity are increasingly determining today's politics and shaping humankind's future. The authors demonstrate the ways these often-neglected factors influence each other, and reveal how we can begin to create a better and more lasting world if we take them seriously into account.
- Contents:
- Hostages to hubris
- The human predicament
- The costs of success
- The tide of population
- The consumption factor
- Technology matters
- Billions, birthrates, and politics
- Consuming less
- A culture out of step
- Human behavior at the millennium
- Sustainable governance in America
- Healing a world of wounds.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-427) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1559638796
- OCLC:
- 53441365
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