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Chapter 7: Human Populations |
Berreby, D. (April) 1990. "The Numbers Game." Discover 11, no. 4:42. An interesting comparison of the views of Paul Ehrlich and Julian Simon.
Bratton, S. P. 1992. Six Billion and More: Human Population and Christian Ethics. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press. A Christian perspective on distributive justice as a way to curb population growth.
Cole, H., et al. 1973. Models of Doom: A Critique of the Limits to Growth. New York: Universe Books. A valuable criticism of the Malthusian assumptions of many population computer models.
Engels, Frederick. 1953 (reprint) "The Myth of Overpopulation," in Ronald L. Meek, ed. Marx and Engels on Malthus. London: Lawrence and Wishart. A Marxian view of population.
Erlich, P. R., et al. (March) 1993. "Food Security, Population, and Environment." Population and Development Review 19, no. 1:32. A pessimistic evaluation of our survival chances by the authors of The Population Bomb (1968) and The Population Explosion (1990).
Giampietro, M., et al. (November) 1992. "Limits to Population Size: Three Scenarios of Energy Interaction Between Human Society and Ecosystem." Population and Environment 14, no. 2:109. What are the upper limits of sustainable human population? Models based on different energy scenarios give very different answers.
Wattenberg, Ben. The Birth Dearth. New York: Paragon House. Claims that more people are necessary to provide soldiers, workers, and consumers for industrial products.
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