Wecskaop
Subtitle: What Every Citizen Should Know About Our Planet
Edition: Second edition, 2008
Publisher: M. Arman Publishing
Published: 2007, First Edition
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780933078185
Subjects: Population; Environment; Demography; Ecology; International Affairs
Genres: Science; Public Affairs; World Affairs; Environmental Education
First sentence: Despite an unwarranted complacency among many, humanity's central problems today include, among other things, (a) the impending arrival of our 7th, 8th, and 9th billions by mid-century, along with (b) the extreme levels of overpopulation and the environmental impacts that we already exhibit.   As a result, a continuation of today's demographic tidal wave may constitute the greatest single risk that our species has ever undertaken.
Description: OVERVIEW:  This book surveys multiple topics, all relating to population and carrying capacity issues.  For example:  "Why Brazil's ten percent conservation goals are not enough," and an assortment of humanitarian, biospheric, and civilizational disasters that current rates of population growth portend.  --------- Other examples include international affairs, poverty, national security, and failed states; climate, Biosphere II, and Roger Revelle; Beyond Six Billion, keystone species, and self-amplifying feedback loops; tipping points, unintended consequences, and unwarranted assumptions; permafrost, global warming, and "the Paleolithic, the Neolithic, and now."
Notes: A 2010 third edition of this title has now been published with notes and TOC also posted on openlibrary.com
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Why Wecskaop?; label: 2
title: Numeric Literacy - a Million and a Billion; label: 3
title: Civilization's Demographic Journey; label: 4
title: Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors; label: 5
title: Ecological Services and Ecological Release; label: 6
title: Fragile Films - Earth's Atmosphere and Seas; label: 7
title: Exponential Mathematics; label: 8
title: A Mathematical Fire Alarm; label: 9
title: Riddles of the Dinoflagellates; label: 10
title: Other Planets; label: 11
title: Limits, Feedbacks, Overshoot, and Collapse; label: 12
title: Thresholds, Tipping Points, and Unintended Consequences; label: 13
title: The Big Question; label: 14
title: Projections, Comments, and Critiques; label: 15
title: Sri Lanka and Caenorhabditis elegans; label: 16
title: Biodiversity and Human Impacts; label: 17
title: The Paleolithic, the Neolithic, and Now; label: 18
title: A Conservation Roadmap; label: 19
title: Humanitarian Snapshots - A Descent into Chaos; label: 20
title: Frequently Asked Questions; label: 21
title: What We Can Do; label: 22
title: Floorspace and Cornucopian Outlooks; label: 23
title: Eight Assumptions that Invite Calamity