| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part One. Overview--what's the problem? 1. "Save that. We might need it someday" -- 2. Public health and politics in West Africa -- 3. Medical school and the Amazon: "You are very keen in your diagnosis" -- 4. Brazil, Chile, and abortion -- 5. Public health; research; and revelation -- 6. A new calling -- 7. Threat to the Holy Cross Wilderness -- 8. Family planning, Amazon style -- 9. "You may not ask that question" -- 10. "As you know, the human population has just doubled for the first time" -- Part Two. Manifestations of malignancy. 11. What the fractal is this? -- 12. Malignant expansion and retroactive heterotrophicity in modern urbanizations -- 13. Effects of malignant human activity on small, local ecosystems: "It's only eels!" -- 14. Human contact and island ecosystems -- 15. Effects of human activities on regional ecosystems -- 16. Effects of human activity on continental ecosystems -- 17. The oceans -- 18. Toxic trash, oncometabolites, and cow farts -- 19. Effects of human activity on biodiversity -- 20. Effects of human activity on the global ecosystem -- Part Three. Analysis and policy choices. 21. Humans as cancer: Metaphor, model, analogy, hypothesis, or diagnosis? -- 22. Human activities and malignant entropy -- 23. Human culture and the ecophagic imperative -- 24. "What will be the limiting factor for the human population?" -- 25. "We have met the enemy, and he is us" -- Epilogue: "Great Bringer of Death to Paradise" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 25, 2024) |
| Subject |
Population -- Environmental aspects.
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Human beings -- Extinction.
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Population.
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Human beings -- Extinction
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Population
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Population -- Environmental aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000640144 |
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1000640140 |
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9781003314950 |
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1003314953 |
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