Too Many People?: Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis

“Should be read by every environmental campaigner”
Title Page
Dedication
Foreword
Foreword by Joel Kovel
Acknowledgments
On Terminology
Introduction
1: Are People the Problem?
	The Population Bomb
	The Closing Circle
	Head to head
2: Varieties of Populationism Today
	“Let the people just starve”
	PJP: “A progressive, feminist approach”
	Optimum Population Trust: “Reduce the number of climate changers”
	Lovelock: “Defend climate oases”
	Jeffrey Sachs: “High fertility rates are deleterious to development”
	SPA: “Reduce population or face chaos”
3: Dissecting Those “Overpopulation” Numbers
	Correlation versus causation
	Population where?
	Problems with per capita
	The IPAT illusion
	Malthus with a computer
4: Is the World Full?
5: The Bomb That Didn’t Explode
6: Too Many Mouths to Feed?
	Where’s the food?
	Will food destroy the earth?
7: The Populationist War against the Poor
	Population control as official policy
	The patient is expendable
	War against the poor
	Incentives and repression
	An imperialist chapter
8: Control without Coercion?
	Contradictory strategies
	Gradations of coercion
	The “Cairo Consensus”
	Too little, too late
9: Lifeboat Ethics
	Guarding the American lifeboat
	“The world can’t afford more Americans”
	The greening of hate
	Greening the anti-immigrant right in Canada
	The immigration wedge
10: Allies, Not Enemies
	Environmental justice
	Protecting plunder
	Our fight is global
11: Too Many Consumers?
	Confusing two kinds of consumption
	Ignoring inequality in the North
	The real superconsumers
12: The Myth of Consumer Sovereignty
	The manipulated market
	Hiding the facts
	The throwaway economy
	The case of the car
	The limits of choice
13: The Military-Corporate Polluter Complex
	The case of Ira Rennert
	A question of power
	Business as usual
	The world’s worst polluter
14: A System of G rowth and Waste
	The growth imperative
	A system based on waste
15: Populationism or Ecological Revolution?
	Getting to the root
	A movement to save the planet
Appendix 1: The Malthus Myth
Appendix 2: Donella Meadows Reconsiders IPAT
Appendix 3: - Eugene V. Debs on Immigration
Appendix 4: Climate Justice and Migration
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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