Life Within Limits
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Life Within Limits
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Author : Michael Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-16
Life Within Limits written by Michael Jackson and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-16 with Business & Economics categories.
An exploration of life satisfaction, happiness, and wellbeing in the first world and third world.
Living Within Limits
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Author : Garrett Hardin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1995-04-06
Living Within Limits written by Garrett Hardin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-04-06 with Business & Economics categories.
"We fail to mandate economic sanity," writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains are addled by...compassion." With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology for decades, winning a reputation as a fearless and original thinker. A prominent biologist, ecological philosopher, and keen student of human population control, Hardin now offers the finest summation of his work to date, with an eloquent argument for accepting the limits of the earth's resources--and the hard choices we must make to live within them. In Living Within Limits, Hardin focuses on the neglected problem of overpopulation, making a forceful case for dramatically changing the way we live in and manage our world. Our world itself, he writes, is in the dilemma of the lifeboat: it can only hold a certain number of people before it sinks--not everyone can be saved. The old idea of progress and limitless growth misses the point that the earth (and each part of it) has a limited carrying capacity; sentimentality should not cloud our ability to take necessary steps to limit population. But Hardin refutes the notion that goodwill and voluntary restraints will be enough. Instead, nations where population is growing must suffer the consequences alone. Too often, he writes, we operate on the faulty principle of shared costs matched with private profits. In Hardin's famous essay, "The Tragedy of the Commons," he showed how a village common pasture suffers from overgrazing because each villager puts as many cattle on it as possible--since the costs of grazing are shared by everyone, but the profits go to the individual. The metaphor applies to global ecology, he argues, making a powerful case for closed borders and an end to immigration from poor nations to rich ones. "The production of human beings is the result of very localized human actions; corrective action must be local....Globalizing the 'population problem' would only ensure that it would never be solved." Hardin does not shrink from the startling implications of his argument, as he criticizes the shipment of food to overpopulated regions and asserts that coercion in population control is inevitable. But he also proposes a free flow of information across boundaries, to allow each state to help itself. "The time-honored practice of pollute and move on is no longer acceptable," Hardin tells us. We now fill the globe, and we have no where else to go. In this powerful book, one of our leading ecological philosophers points out the hard choices we must make--and the solutions we have been afraid to consider.
Living Within Limits
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Author : Kenneth M. Merz
language : en
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Living Within Limits written by Kenneth M. Merz and has been published by Algora Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Philosophy categories.
Presenting his view of life as "optimism triumphant," Dr. Ken Merz, Sr., reflects on the limits of life, the limits of the physical universe, and the role of humans in that universe. He explains various laws of science while reviewing aspects of physical reality, aspects of biological reality, and definitions of scientific reality. Discussing mankind's ongoing search for truth, he examines the distinction between believing and knowing. The book's themes include time and change, with a consideration of the work of Darwin, Mendel, and Watson and Crick. Explaining the basics of the double helix of DNA and the micro evolution of life, Dr. Merz ponders individualism and evolution, and makes a plea for humans to wield their power over life responsibly. --From publisher's description.
Living With Limits
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Author : Harold C. Warlick
language : en
Publisher: CSS Publishing
Release Date : 1996
Living With Limits written by Harold C. Warlick and has been published by CSS Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Religion categories.
This is precisely the kind of book we need for this confused, exasperating yet exhilarating time in the life of the church. Instead of offering either despair or platitudes about the loss of traditional ambiguities and to respond to the challenge of the times with a lilting imagination and a skip in our step. It ought to become a handbook for Christians in every denomination. John Killinger Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama
Consumption Corridors
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Author : Doris Fuchs
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-03-03
Consumption Corridors written by Doris Fuchs and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-03 with Business & Economics categories.
Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good life are explained and explored, as are forces that threaten the good life for all. The remedy, says the book’s seven international authors, lies with the concept of consumption corridors, enabled by mechanisms of citizen engagement and deliberative democracy. Across five concise chapters, readers are invited into conversation about how wellbeing can be enriched by social change that joins "needs satisfaction" with consumerist restraint, social justice, and environmental sustainability. In this endeavour, lower limits of consumption that ensure minimal needs satisfaction for all are important, and enjoy ample precedent. But upper limits to consumption, argue the authors, are equally essential, and attainable, especially in those domains where limits enhance rather than undermine essential freedoms. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and environmental and sustainability studies, as well as to community activists and the general public. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367748746, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Beyond Limit
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Author : AISHWARYA CHAKRABORTY
language : en
Publisher: JEC PUBLICATION
Release Date :
Beyond Limit written by AISHWARYA CHAKRABORTY and has been published by JEC PUBLICATION this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Beyond Limit itself means limitless. In this Anthology, various co - authors took part with an open theme, genre and language thus proving that to showcase a writer's free spirit and talent nothing can be a limit or clause
Living And Dying In The Contemporary World
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Author : Veena Das
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2015-11-17
Living And Dying In The Contemporary World written by Veena Das and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with Social Science categories.
Taking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence and care, illness and healing, this book radically shifts the way we think of the interrelations of institutions and experiences in a globalizing world. Living and Dying in the Contemporary World is not just another reader in medical anthropology but a true tour de force—a deep exploration of all that makes life unbearable and yet livable through the labor of ordinary people. This book comprises forty-four chapters by scholars whose ethnographic and historical work is conducted around the globe, including South Asia, East Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Bringing together the work of established scholars with the vibrant voices of younger scholars, Living and Dying in the Contemporary World will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, health scientists, scholars of religion, and all who are curious about how to relate to the rapidly changing institutions and experiences in an ever more connected world.
What Kind Of Life
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Author : Daniel Callahan
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 1995-02-01
What Kind Of Life written by Daniel Callahan and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-02-01 with Medical categories.
A provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.
Wise Church
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Author : Scot McKnight
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-03-31
Wise Church written by Scot McKnight and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-31 with Religion categories.
"Wise Church is about rethinking church cultures so they become more of a wisdom culture. The topics vary as widely as church life itself: letter writing as pastoral care, the work life of congregants, evangelism, music, church economics, spiritual formation as the pursuit of wisdom, racial justice, marriage, learning how to teach like Jesus, gospeling like the apostles, and the wise use of social media. These studies are by pastors and scholars pondering wisdom, but more than that, they are pondering the life we all live in a wise way. We and our churches need wisdom, not simply because we live in an ever-changing world, but because the God we worship is himself wise. Wise church cultures reflect the wisdom of God back into the world, a world looking for wisdom." With contributions from: Jeff Bannman Jeremy Berg Brandon Evans Pete Goodman David Johnston Ernest F. Ledbetter III Julie Murdock Joshua Little John M. Phelps Ivan Ramirez Bill D. Shiell
Hearings
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with categories.