Our Population Predicament
Title | Our Population Predicament PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Van der Tak |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Population forecasting |
ISBN |
The Population Predicament
Title | The Population Predicament PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Dietz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 59 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Birth control |
ISBN |
The Global Population Predicament
Title | The Global Population Predicament PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Barberis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Population density |
ISBN |
The Population Explosion
Title | The Population Explosion PDF eBook |
Author | Paul R. Ehrlich |
Publisher | Touchstone |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
"From global warming to rain forest destruction, famine, and air and water pollution--why overpopulation is our #1 environmental problem"--Jacket subtitle.
The Human Predicament
Title | The Human Predicament PDF eBook |
Author | David Benatar |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2017-05-05 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0190633832 |
Are our lives meaningful, or meaningless? Is our inevitable death a bad thing? Would immortality be an improvement? Would it be better, all things considered, to hasten our deaths by suicide? Many people ask these big questions -- and some people are plagued by them. Surprisingly, analytic philosophers have said relatively little about these important questions about the meaning of life. When they have tackled the big questions, they have tended, like popular writers, to offer comforting, optimistic answers. The Human Predicament invites readers to take a clear-eyed and unfettered view of the human condition. David Benatar here offers a substantial, but not unmitigated, pessimism about the central questions of human existence. He argues that while our lives can have some meaning, we are ultimately the insignificant beings that we fear we might be. He maintains that the quality of life, although less bad for some than for others, leaves much to be desired in even the best cases. Worse, death is generally not a solution; in fact, it exacerbates rather than mitigates our cosmic meaninglessness. While it can release us from suffering, it imposes another cost - annihilation. This state of affairs has nuanced implications for how we should think about many things, including immortality and suicide, and how we should think about the possibility of deeper meaning in our lives. Ultimately, this thoughtful, provocative, and deeply candid treatment of life's big questions will interest anyone who has contemplated why we are here, and what the answer means for how we should live.
Population, Resources, Environment
Title | Population, Resources, Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Panl R. Ehrlick |
Publisher | |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Limits to Growth
Title | The Limits to Growth PDF eBook |
Author | Donella H. Meadows |
Publisher | Universe Pub |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Economic development. |
ISBN | 9780876632222 |
Examines the factors which limit human economic and population growth and outlines the steps necessary for achieving a balance between population and production. Bibliogs