Population Growth, Resource Consumption, and the Environment: Seeking a Common Vision for a Troubled World

Rick Searle

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Population Growth, Resource Consumption, and the Environment

Seeking a Common Vision for a Troubled World

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2006

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A public-policy summary of the academic chapters presented at the 1993 Whistler Conference “Population, Consumption and the Environment” in which scholars from the world religions and the aboriginal traditions, as well as scientists, demographers, philosophers and economists from Canada, the U.S., Africa, Japan and India examined the double-sided problem of population pressure and excess consumption, and the resulting degradation of the environment.

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Contributor: Rick Searle

Rick Searle is a science writer and teaches Geography at the University of Victoria.

--- Contributor: Harold Coward

Harold Coward is a professor of history and director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria.

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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Foreword
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Overview
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SECTION I: THE PLANETARY CRISIS
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The Human Context
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The Natural Background
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SECTION II: RELIGIOUS ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES
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Aboriginal Spirituality
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The Environmental Crisis and Jewish Earthways
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Chosen Persons and the Green Ecumenacy: A Possible Christian Response to the Population Apocalypse
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Islam and the Environment
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Population Pressure, Natural Resources, the Environment, and Hinduism
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Buddhist Resources for Issues of Population and Consumption in Relationship with the Environment
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Chinese Religions
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SECTION III: SECULAR ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES
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Prescriptions from Religious and Secular Ethics for Breaking the Impoverishment/Environmental Degradation Cycle
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Ethics, Family Planning, the Status of Women, and The Environment
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Projected Population Patterns, North-South Relations, and the Environment
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SECTION IV: ECONOMIC, LEGAL, AND DEEP ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
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Environmental Degradation and the Religion of the Market
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International Law, Population Pressure, and the Environment: North-South Relations
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The Northern Consumption Issue After Rio and the Role of Religion in Environmentalism
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SECTION V: RESPONSES FROM BUSINESS, RELIGION, AND GOVERNMENTS
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Possible Response Options for Corporations
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Possible Response Options for Religions
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Possible Response Options for Governments
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SECTION VI: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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Conclusions and Recommendations
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Population Growth, Resource Consumption, and the Environment

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Overview

The Human Context

The Natural Background

Aboriginal Spirituality

The Environmental Crisis and Jewish Earthways

Chosen Persons and the Green Ecumenacy: A Possible Christian Response to the Population Apocalypse

Islam and the Environment

Population Pressure, Natural Resources, the Environment, and Hinduism

Buddhist Resources for Issues of Population and Consumption in Relationship with the Environment

Chinese Religions

Prescriptions from Religious and Secular Ethics for Breaking the Impoverishment/Environmental Degradation Cycle

Ethics, Family Planning, the Status of Women, and The Environment

Projected Population Patterns, North-South Relations, and the Environment

Environmental Degradation and the Religion of the Market

International Law, Population Pressure, and the Environment: North-South Relations

The Northern Consumption Issue After Rio and the Role of Religion in Environmentalism

Possible Response Options for Corporations

Possible Response Options for Religions

Possible Response Options for Governments

Conclusions and Recommendations

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