Description: A robust discussion of population issues among environmentalists, environmental studies scholars, policymakers, and the general public. Population growth is a major force behind many of our most serious ecological problems, including global climate change, habitat loss and species extinctions, air and water pollution, and food and water scarcity.
Brief description: PHILIP CAFARO is an assistant professor of philosophy at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Review Quotes:
The desire for families is built into our genes; and since people have a right to reproduce, more people living a more abundant life is a perennial hope. But seven billion and escalating to ten or twelve? Too many people is arguably the most serious problem on the world agenda--for the adverse effects on human flourishing, on land health, and on biodiversity. . . . Cafaro and Crist have gathered much of the best recent work analyzing these daunting issues. In the new millennium no one can claim to be well educated, or moral, without facing 'life on the brink.'
--Holmes Rolston III "Colorado State University"