Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care

by Giorgos Kallis

Western culture is infatuated with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by the specter of apocalypse: drought, famine, nuclear winter. How did we come to think of the planet and its limits as we do? This book reclaims, redefines, and makes an impassioned plea for limits-a notion central to environmentalism-clearing them from their association with Malthusianism and the ideology and politics that go along with it. Giorgos...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503611558
• ISBN13: 9781503611559
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Stanford Briefs
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.9"