Too Many People? · Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis by Angus, Ian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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“Should be read by every environmental campaigner” Title Page Dedication Foreword Foreword by Joel Kovel Acknowledgments On Terminology Introduction 1: Are People the Problem?

The Population Bomb The Closing Circle Head to head

2: Varieties of Populationism Today

3: Dissecting Those “Overpopulation” Numbers

Correlation versus causation Population where? Problems with per capita The IPAT illusion Malthus with a computer

4: Is the World Full? 5: The Bomb That Didn’t Explode 6: Too Many Mouths to Feed?

Where’s the food? Will food destroy the earth?

7: The Populationist War against the Poor

Population control as official policy The patient is expendable War against the poor Incentives and repression An imperialist chapter

8: Control without Coercion?

Contradictory strategies Gradations of coercion The “Cairo Consensus” Too little, too late

9: Lifeboat Ethics

Guarding the American lifeboat “The world can’t afford more Americans” The greening of hate Greening the anti-immigrant right in Canada The immigration wedge

10: Allies, Not Enemies

Environmental justice Protecting plunder Our fight is global

11: Too Many Consumers?

Confusing two kinds of consumption Ignoring inequality in the North The real superconsumers

12: The Myth of Consumer Sovereignty

The manipulated market Hiding the facts The throwaway economy The case of the car The limits of choice

13: The Military-Corporate Polluter Complex

The case of Ira Rennert A question of power Business as usual The world’s worst polluter

14: A System of G rowth and Waste

The growth imperative A system based on waste

15: Populationism or Ecological Revolution?

Getting to the root A movement to save the planet

Appendix 1: The Malthus Myth Appendix 2: Donella Meadows Reconsiders IPAT Appendix 3: - Eugene V. Debs on Immigration Appendix 4: Climate Justice and Migration Notes Bibliography Index About Ian Angus Also from Haymarket Books About Haymarket Books Copyright Page