The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism

The Malthusian Moment locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in a twentieth-century revival of interest in Thomas Malthus's 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 women's movements, the role of scientists in a democracy, new attitudes about sex and sexuality, and the emergence of the “New Right.”

Author(s): Thomas Robertson
Publisher: Studies in Modern Science, Tec
Published: 2012
Pages: 291
Categories: History