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Paperback The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism Book

ISBN: 0813552729

ISBN13: 9780813552729

The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism

(Part of the Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment Series)

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Although Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in twentieth-century adaptations of Thomas Malthus's concerns about population growth. For many environmentalists, managing population growth became the key to unlocking the most intractable problems facing Americans after...

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