The Malthusian Moment
Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism
2012
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The Malthusian Moment locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in a twentieth-century revival of interest in Thomas MalthusOCOs theory of population growth, shedding new light on some of the big stories of postwar American life: the role of the federal government, urban and suburban problems, the Civil Rights and womenOCOs movements, the role of scientists in a democracy, new attitudes about sex and sexuality, and the emergence of the OC New Right.OCOa
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