TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kallis,Giorgos
TI  - Limits : why Malthus was wrong and why environmentalists should care 
SN  - 9781503611559
U1  - 338.927 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Stanford
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Resource allocation
KW  - Scarcity
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-154); Introduction: Why limits? -- Why Malthus was wrong -- Economics: scarcity without limits -- The limits of environmentalism -- A culture of limits -- The limits of limits -- Epilogue: In defense of limits
N2  - 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 Kallis rereads reverend-economist Thomas Robert Malthus and his legacy, separating limits and scarcity, two notions that have long been conflated in both environmental and economic thought. Limits are not something out there, a property of nature to be deciphered by scientists, but a choice that confronts us, one that, paradoxically, is part and parcel of the pursuit of freedom. Taking us from ancient Greece to Malthus, from hunter-gatherers to the Romantics, from anarchist feminists to 1970s radical environmentalists, Limits shows us how an institutionalized culture of sharing can make possible the collective self-limitation we so urgently need. --
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