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Our day-to-day experiences over the past decade have taught us that there must be limits to our tremendous appetite for energy, natural resources, and consumer goods. Even utility and oil companies now promote conservation in the face of demands for dwindling energy reserves. And for years some biologists have warned us of the direct correlation between scarcity and population growth. These scientists see an appalling future riding the tidal wave of a worldwide growth of population and technology.
A calm but unflinching realist, Catton suggests that we cannot stop this wave - for we have already overshot the Earth's capacity to support so huge a load. He contradicts those scientists, engineers, and technocrats who continue to write optimistically about energy alternatives. Catton asserts that the technological panaceas proposed by those who would harvest from the seas, harness the winds, and farm the deserts are ignoring the fundamental premise that "the principals of ecology apply to all living things." These principles tell us that, within a finite system, economic expansion is not irreversible and population growth cannot continue indefinitely. If we disregard these facts, our sagging American Dream will soon shatter completely.
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Indexes
Name Index
Abelson, Philip H., 196
Ackerknecht, Erwin H., 34
Adler, Nathan, 73, 74
Allaby, Michael, 113, 195
Allan, William, 15
Allen, Michael Patrick, 241, 242
Andrus, Cecil, 232
Appelman, Philip, 140, 141
Armstrong, Neil, 150
Aronowitz, Stanley, 179
Ayres, Eugene, 55, 56
Bach, Wilfrid, 241, 242
Baden, John, 55, 56, 57
Baker, Howard, 229, 230, 241
Barash, David P., 242
Barron, J. C., 267
Baxter, Sir Philip, 223
Beck, William S., 114
Becker, Carl, 91
Bell, J. F., 269
Bennet, D. J., 196, 197
Benson, G. Randolph, 90, 91
Berkner, Lloyd V., 56
Bernard, Jessie, 13
Billington, Ray Allen, 56
Black, Max, 7, 13
Blaug, Mark, 140, 141
Boffey, Philip M., 196
Bolin, Bert, 113, 114
Borgstrom, Georg, 38, 41, 44, 45, 55, 56
Borrie, W D., 34
Boughey, Arthur S., 15, 18, 33, 34, 93, 113, 155
Brancazio, Peter J., 56, 57, 113
Brown, Harrison, 191, 195, 196, 197
Brown, Irene L., 33, 34, 156
Brown, J. Campbell, 178
Brown, Lester R., 1, 13
Brown, William, 269
Bryson, Reid A., 57, 73, 74
Burch, William R., Jr., 74
Burgess, Ernest W., 122, 124
Burnet, Macfarlane, 140, 141
Burridge, Kenelm, 195, 197
Buultjens, Ralph, 268, 269
Caldwell, Lynton K., 1
Calhoun, John B., 113
Campbell, Bernard G., 155, 156
Cameron, A. G. W, 56, 57, 113
Cannon, Walter B., 156
Carson, Rachel, 113, 114
Carter, Jimmy, 6, 13, 183, 184, 195, 227, 228, 229, 237, 241, 242, 245, 268
Carter, Luther J., 268
Castro, Fidel, 11
Catton, William R., Jr., 13, 90, 242
Caudill, Harry M., 156
Chandler, Lester V., 178, 179
Chase, Allan, 53, 139, 140
Chedd, Graham, 195
Cheremisinoff, Paul N., 196, 197
Childe, V. Gordon, 33, 34
Chorley, Kenneth, 123, 124
Christian, John J., 224
Churchill, Winston, 112, 227
Clark, Colin, 55
Clements, Frederic E., 122, 123, 124
Cloud, Preston, 113, 114
Coale, Ansley J., 18, 33, 34
Cohn, Norman, 73, 195, 197
Cole, H. S. D., 267
Columbus, Christopher, 24, 25, 42, 52, 266
Commager, Henry Steele, 75
Commoner, Barry, 179, 224, 225
Conconi, Charles, 198, 211
Cook, Earl, 141
Cook, Fred, 179
Corliss, William R., 195, 196, 198
Coser, Lewis A., 14, 90
Cottrell, Fred, 44, 50, 53, 55, 57, 140, 141
Crescitelli, Frederick, 155
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Preface
- Foreword
- Contents
- I. The Unfathomed Predicament of Mankind
- II. Eventually had Already Come Yesterday
- III. Siege and the Avoidance of Truth
- IV. Toward Ecological Understanding
- V. Resistance and Change
- VI. Living with the New Reality
- Glossary
- Indexes