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Although Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in twentieth-century adaptations of Thomas Malthus’s concerns about population growth. For many environmentalists, managing population growth became the key to unlocking the most intractable problems facing Americans after World War II—everything from war and the spread of communism overseas to poverty, race riots, and suburban sprawl at home. Weaving together the international and the domestic in creative new ways, The Malthusian Moment charts the explosion of Malthusian thinking in the United States from World War I to Earth Day 1970, then traces the just-as-surprising decline in concern beginning in the mid-1970's. In addition to offering an unconventional look at World War II and the Cold War through a balanced study of the environmental movement’s most contentious theory, the book sheds new light on some of the big stories of postwar American life: the rise of consumption, the growth of the federal government, urban and suburban problems, the civil rights and women’s movements, the role of scientists in a democracy, new attitudes about sex and sexuality, and the emergence of the “New Right.”

Overpopulation --- Environmentalism --- History --- Business & Economics --- Demography --- History. --- Population explosion --- Population --- E-books --- Overpopulation - History --- Environmentalism - United States - History

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In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly tracks the cultural effects of the population explosion of the nineteenth century, the 'demographic transition' to the modern world. As the crowded cities of Paris, London and New York went through similar transformations, a set of shared narratives and images of urban life circulated among them, including fantasies of urban catastrophe, crime dramas, and tales of haunted public transport, refracting the hell that is other people. In the visual arts, sentimental genre pictures appeared that condensed the urban masses into a handful of vulnerable figures: newsboys and flower-girls. At the end of the century, proto-ecological stories emerge about the sprawling city as itself a destroyer. This lively study excavates some of the origins of our own international popular culture, from noir visions of the city as a locus of crime, to utopian images of energy and community.

Demographic transition -- England -- London -- History. --- Demographic transition -- France -- Paris -- History. --- Demographic transition -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. --- Overpopulation -- History. --- Demographic transition --- Overpopulation --- Business & Economics --- Demography --- Population explosion --- Population --- Transition, Demographic --- Vital revolution (Demography) --- Vital statistics --- History --- History.

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Demography --- Overpopulation --- International relations --- 314.1 --- Population explosion --- Population --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Algemene demografische vraagstukken --- International relations. --- Overpopulation. --- 314.1 Algemene demografische vraagstukken

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Aan het eind van deze eeuw zullen minstens 10 miljard mensen de aarde bevolken, verwacht Stephen Emmott. En dat gaat niet goed aflopen, dat kan de aarde niet aan. Hoe kon dit gebeuren? Kunnen we er nog iets aan doen?Wanneer Emmott aan een collega vraagt hoe hij zich het best kan voorbereiden op deze toekomst, is het cynische antwoord: 'Leer je kinderen een wapen gebruiken.'Bron : http://www.atlascontact.nl

Bevolkingsexplosie --- Espace [Organisation de l' ] --- Land --- Land use --- Landgebruik --- Occupation des sols --- Occupation du sol --- Organisation de l'espace --- Overbevolking --- Overpopulation --- Population explosion --- Sol [Occupation du ] --- Sol [Utilisation du ] --- Surpopulation --- Terrains--Utilisation --- Use of land --- Utilisation du sol --- Utilisation du territoire --- Utilization of land --- Toekomstbeeldvorming --- Internationalisering --- Politiek --- Population --- Environmental aspects --- Toekomstvisie --- Maatschappij --- Film

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Sustainable development. --- Consumption (Economics) --- Overpopulation. --- Social justice. --- Equality --- Justice --- Population explosion --- Population --- Consumer demand --- Consumer spending --- Consumerism --- Spending, Consumer --- Demand (Economic theory) --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Environmental aspects