Numbers: A Population Reduction ProposalUniversal-Publishers, 2006 - 248 pages The author proposes that the democratic institution of laws promoting one-child families for 100 years is the only non-violent and fair solution to the economic and ecological problems now squarely facing us. As such the book presents a palatable alternative to the now-suspect 'sustainable development' paradigm, and examines why such a proposal has not been made before. The book ends by assessing the justification for instituting and changing current 'population law', both nationally and internationally. |
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Page xi
... Argues for solutions adoptable either nationally or internationally; and 3. Provides a specific, ethical response. A few flat‐earth supporters will still argue that such a collapse is not imminent, despite numerous publications by the ...
... Argues for solutions adoptable either nationally or internationally; and 3. Provides a specific, ethical response. A few flat‐earth supporters will still argue that such a collapse is not imminent, despite numerous publications by the ...
Page xii
... argue that scarcity and collapse have always been with us – on a personal level for the unlucky. There is an American tradition that any 'rugged individual' can rise from rags to riches if (s)he so chooses. But such 'choice' depends on ...
... argue that scarcity and collapse have always been with us – on a personal level for the unlucky. There is an American tradition that any 'rugged individual' can rise from rags to riches if (s)he so chooses. But such 'choice' depends on ...
Page xiii
... argument that the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse are humanity's ' natural ' regulators is to be resisted , again because the only species capable of ethical thought should not let them ride . The book's title derives from a non ‐ existent ...
... argument that the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse are humanity's ' natural ' regulators is to be resisted , again because the only species capable of ethical thought should not let them ride . The book's title derives from a non ‐ existent ...
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... argue that the solution is roughly 100 years of stringent birth control by all humans on earth. The self‐imposed ... argued. The morality of the consequential economic and ecological well‐ being is argued to outweigh the immorality of ...
... argue that the solution is roughly 100 years of stringent birth control by all humans on earth. The self‐imposed ... argued. The morality of the consequential economic and ecological well‐ being is argued to outweigh the immorality of ...
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... argues that such a correlation is fictitious – an artifact of narrow thinking and not thinking on a per‐capita basis. The above proposal also runs counter to the concept of 'free trade' in vogue for 75 years with the World Trade ...
... argues that such a correlation is fictitious – an artifact of narrow thinking and not thinking on a per‐capita basis. The above proposal also runs counter to the concept of 'free trade' in vogue for 75 years with the World Trade ...
Contents
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Chapter 3 | 71 |
Chapter 4 | 93 |
Chapter 5 | 135 |
Chapter 6 | 163 |
Chapter 7 | 199 |
Economics and International Governance during | 215 |
212 | 227 |
World III Data | 231 |
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Page 222 - In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.
Page 49 - It is possible to alter these growth trends and to establish a condition of ecological and economic stability that is sustainable far into the future. The state of global equilibrium could be designed so that the basic material needs of each person on earth are satisfied and each person has an equal opportunity to realize his individual human potential.
Page 48 - If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years. The most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity.
Page 158 - Nothing in the present Covenant shall be interpreted as impairing the inherent right of all peoples to enjoy and utilize fully and freely their natural wealth and resources.
Page 120 - This concept is not intended to be definitive, but merely to call attention to crimes which are not ordinarily included within the scope of criminology. White collar crime may be defined approximately as a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation.
Page 158 - All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources without prejudice to any obligations arising out of international economic cooperation, based upon the principle of mutual benefit, and international law. In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.
Page 169 - ... rationalizations"; rather, it is to say that they have an element of rationalization in them. Theory, then, by making power legitimate, turns it into authority. All theories of legitimacy take the form of establishing a principle which, while it resides outside power and is independent of it, locates or embeds power in a realm of things beyond the wills of the holders of power: the legitimacy of power stems from its origin. In addition, most theories of legitimacy simultaneously attempt to justify...
Page 151 - We would seem to be headed toward conclusions unpalatable to many Christians. Since both science and technology are blessed words in our contemporary vocabulary, some may be happy at the notions, first, that, viewed historically, modern science is an extrapolation of natural theology and, second, that modern technology is at least partly to be explained as an Occidental, voluntarist realization of the Christian dogma of man's transcendence of, and rightful mastery over, nature.