Beyond the Numbers
Subtitle: A Reader on Population, Consumption and the Environment
Contributors: Timothy Wirth (Foreword); T. Homer Dixon (Contributor); J. Boutwell (Contributor); G. Rathjens (Contributor); Judy Norsigian (Contributor); Sharon Stanton Russell (Contributor); David E. Horlacher (Contributor); Adrienne Germain (Contributor); Jane Ordway (Contributor); Judith Bruce (Contributor); Anrudh Jain (Contributor); Barbara S. Mensch (Contributor); Christopher Elias (Contributor); Nafis Sadik (Contributor); Nancy Yu Ping Chen (Contributor); Hania Zlotnick (Contributor); Laurie Mazur (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: April 1, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781559632997
Subjects: Population & demography; Environmental protection; Development - Sustainable Development; Environmental Studies; Sociology; Population; Environmental Science; Science / Environmental Science; Consumption (Economics); Birth control; Population policy
First sentence: The debate has been going on for almost two hundred years, since the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus, in reaction to a group of optimistic French writers, penned his famous dictum in his 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population: "Taking the population of the world at any number ... the human species would increase in the ratio of - 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,&amp;c, and subsistence as - 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,&amp;c."