Hardin, Garrett James, 1915-2003,

The ostrich factor : our population myopia / Garrett Hardin. - viii, 168 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index.

The Pursuit of Objectivity -- Tertullian's Blessing -- How to Lie with Learned Words -- Foundations of Science: by Right, or by Default? -- The Stormy Marriage of Economics and Ecology -- Consequentialism: Nature's Morality -- Natural Selection: God's Choice -- Altruism -- Coercion -- Diseconopmies of Scale: Ostrich Myopia -- The Dream of One World -- Russell's Theorem -- A Martian View of Malthus -- Equity, Equality and Affirmative Action -- Multiculturalism: For and Against -- Ambivalent Value of Growth -- The Extended Reach of Gresham's Law -- Summary: Can Our Ostriches Find the Will?. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.

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Population--Environmental aspects
Quality of life.

HB849.415. / H37 1999

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