Fred Pearce is a former news editor at New Scientist. Currently its environmental and development consultant, he has also written for Audubon, Popular Science, Time, the Boston Globe, and Natural History, and writes a regular column for the Guardian. His books include When the Rivers Run Dry (Beacon / 8573-8 / $16.00 pb), With Speed and Violence (Beacon / 8577-6 / $15.00 pb), and Confessions of an Eco-Sinner (Beacon / 8595-0 / $16.00 pb). Pearce lives in England.
Preface | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. xv |
Malthusian Nightmares | |
A Dark and Terrible Genius | p. 3 |
The Road to Skibbereen | p. 13 |
Saving the White Man | p. 20 |
Rise of the Population Controllers | |
An Ornithologist Speaks | p. 33 |
The Contraceptive Cavalry | p. 39 |
Three Wise Men | p. 51 |
Six Dollars a Snip | p. 58 |
Green Revolution | p. 66 |
One Child | p. 75 |
Implosion | |
Small Towns in Germany | p. 87 |
Winter in Europe | p. 94 |
Russian Roulette | p. 102 |
The Reproductive Revolution | |
Sisters | p. 111 |
Sex and the City | p. 121 |
Singapore Sling | p. 128 |
Missing Girls | p. 138 |
Where Men Still Rule | p. 147 |
Migrants | |
Waving or Drowning? | p. 157 |
Migrant Myths | p. 165 |
Footloose in Asia | p. 174 |
God's Crucible | p. 179 |
Reaching The Limits | |
The Tigers and the Bulge | p. 193 |
Footprints on a Finite Planet | p. 201 |
Feeding the World | p. 209 |
Slumdogs Arise | p. 222 |
Older, Wiser, Greener | |
The Age of the Old | p. 231 |
Silver Lining | p. 239 |
Peak Population and Beyond | p. 246 |
Notes on Sources | p. 251 |
Index | p. 278 |
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