The ostrich factor : our population Myopia / Garrett Hardin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardin, Garrett, 1915-2003, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population--Environmental aspects.

Population.

Quality of life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Garrett Hardin addresses the arguments from economists about continued "sustainable" growth. This text seeks to lay out the practical steps that humankind must take quite early in the 21st century for the long-term survival of civilization.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Pursuit of Objectivity; 2 Tertullian's Blessing; 3 How to Lie with Learned Words; 4 Foundations of Activist Science: By Right or By Default?; 5 The Stormy Marriage of Economics and Ecology; 6 Consequentialism: Nature's Morality; 7 Natural Selection: God's Choice; 8 Altruism; 9 Coercion; 10 Diseconomies of Scale: Ostrich Myopia; 11 The Dream of One World; 12 Russell's Theorem; 13 A Martian View of Malthus; 14 Equity, Equality, and Affirmative Action; 15 Multiculturalism: For and Against; 16 Ambivalent Value of Growth; 17 The Extended Reach of Gresham's Law

18 Summary: Can Our Ostriches Find the Will?Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770218-X

1-280-53005-7

0-19-535270-X

0-585-11195-2

OCLC:

476014768