The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia

The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia

by Garrett Hardin (Author)

Synopsis

Garrett Hardin, one of the leading thinkers on the problem of overpopulation, addresses the arguments of economists about continued 'sustainable growth'. He discusses issues that are frequently avoided in most short-term considerations of population levels. This book builds upon the success of Hardin's earlier book, Living Within Limits, and seeks to lay out the practical steps that humankind must take now to ensure the long-term survival of civilization.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 180
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 01 Feb 1999

ISBN 10: 0195122747
ISBN 13: 9780195122749

Media Reviews
...his challenges to widely held assumptions are bound to stir the reader's thoughts... --Scientific American Garrett Hardin has once again turned his delightful brilliance loose on the purpose and effectiveness of government in a democracy, the protection of each from all and all from each. No one feeds the intellectual fires of ecology's role in government better than Hardin. Rich in history, ethics, etymology, Hardin specializes in breaking the manacles of history, phrase and thought that seem to condemn us to the cheapening of people and the impoverishment of habitat through growth in human numbers. Hardin offers an exciting glimpse of ourselves at the moment and shows us all that history need not flow inevitably to chaos. --G.M. Woodwell, Director, Woods Hole Research Center Sure to stimulate debate. --Booklist A learned, witty, and controversial book evaluating contemporary ethical assumptions regarding population planning and world population growth. --Library Journal With clear logic and imaginative insight, Garrett Hardin has again given us a strong helping hand in the unending task of overcoming denial of the tough issues in population, economics, and ethics. --Herman E. Daly, Professor School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland
Author Bio
Garrett Hardin is Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.