TY - BOOK AU - Hardin,Garrett James TI - The ostrich factor: our population myopia SN - 0195122747 AV - HB849.415. H37 1999 U1 - 304.2 PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Population KW - Environmental aspects KW - Quality of life N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index; 1; The Pursuit of Objectivity --; 2; Tertullian's Blessing --; 3; How to Lie with Learned Words --; 4; Foundations of Science: by Right, or by Default? --; 5; The Stormy Marriage of Economics and Ecology --; 6; Consequentialism: Nature's Morality --; 7; Natural Selection: God's Choice --; 8; Altruism --; 9; Coercion --; 10; Diseconopmies of Scale: Ostrich Myopia --; 11; The Dream of One World --; 12; Russell's Theorem --; 13; A Martian View of Malthus --; 14; Equity, Equality and Affirmative Action --; 15; Multiculturalism: For and Against --; 16; Ambivalent Value of Growth --; 17; The Extended Reach of Gresham's Law --; 18; Summary: Can Our Ostriches Find the Will? ER -