Living within limits: ecology, economics, and population taboos

Part 1 Entangling Alliances 1. The Challenge of Limits 2. Overpopulation: Escape to the Stars? 3. Uneasy Litter Mates: Population and Progress 4. Population Theory: Academia's Stepchild 5. Default Status: making Sense of the World 6. The Ambivalent Triumph of Optimism 7. Cowboy Economics versus Spaceship Ecology 8. Growth: Real and Spurious 9. Exponential Growth of Populations 10. What Malthus Missed 11. The Demostat 12. Generating the Future 13. Limits: A Constrained View 14. From Jevons's Coal to Hubbert's Pimple Part 2 Lookin for the Bluebird 15. Nuclear Power: A Nonsolution 16. Trying to Escape Malthus 17. The Benign Demographic Transition Part 3 Biting the Bullet 18. Making Room for Human Will 19. Major Default Positions of Human Biology 20. Carrying Capacity 21. The Global Pillage: Consequences of Unmanaged Commons 22. Discriminating Altruisms 23. The Double C-Double P Game 24. Birth Control versus Population Control 25. Population Control: Natural versus Human 26. The Necessity of Immigration Control 27. Recapitulation and a Look Ahead Notes and References Index