Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-278) and index.
Contents:
List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations used in Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Quantity and quality -- Chapter 2. Family planning -- Chapter 3. Global population -- Chapter 4. Population consensus -- Chapter 5. Demography as diplomacy -- Chapter 6. Detonating the Population Bomb -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
'Building the Population Bomb' carefully examines how the rise of the world's human population came to be understood as problematic by scientists and governments across the globe. It challenges our assumption of population growth as inherently problematic by demonstrating how it is our anxieties over population growth - and not population growth itself - that have detracted from the pursuit of economic, environmental, and reproductive justice.
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