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Overshoot
William R. Catton
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Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
Our day-to-day experiences over the past decade have taught us that there must be limits to our tremendous appetite for energy, natural resources, and consumer goods. Even utility and oil companies now promote conservation in the face of demands for dwindling energy reserves. And for years some biologists have warned us of the direct correlation between scarcity and population growth. These scientists see an appalling future riding the tidal wave of a worldwide growth of population and technology.
Our day-to-day experiences over the past decade have taught us that there must be limits to our tremendous appetite for energy, natural resources, and consumer goods. Even utility and oil companies now promote conservation in the face of demands for dwindling energy reserves. And for years some biologists have warned us of the direct correlation between scarcity and population growth. These scientists see an appalling future riding the tidal wave of a worldwide growth of population and technology.
A calm but unflinching realist, Catton suggests that we cannot stop this wave - for we have already overshot the Earth's ... Read more
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Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Condition
New
Weight
527g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252009884
SKU
V9780252009884
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99-1
About William R. Catton
William R. Catton, Jr., is professor of sociology at Washington State University and author of From Animistic to Naturalistic Sociology and more than seventy-five articles in such journals as American Sociologist, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Forestry, and BioScience.
Reviews for Overshoot
"The greatest contribution of Overshoot is the translation of ecological understanding into terms directly related to our own society's future. Catton has a very good way with words
ghost acreages, Homo Colossus, Age of Exuberance
which serve to make the challenge of the future clear to anyone reading his book."
Warren Johnson, author of Muddling Toward Frugality
ghost acreages, Homo Colossus, Age of Exuberance
which serve to make the challenge of the future clear to anyone reading his book."
Warren Johnson, author of Muddling Toward Frugality