This page is intended to supplement the instructional handout listing materials with a "anti" position on population growth. Many of the materials in this list appear on the BI131 class handout.
The list is in arranged sections by type of material. Magazine and journal articles are first, followed by books. Web pages, as well as books and articles shown in the BI131 handout, but available only by interlibrary loan, are shown in the additional materials section.
The following articles are available in full electronic text on EBSCOhost, or in the Chemeketa library, or both. If you are on a computer connected to Chemeketa's network, clicking on a highlighted title will take you directly to the article.
If you are viewing this page on a computer not connected to Chemeketa's network, you will need the 14-digit barcode number from your ID card to access the article.
Bader, J. & Truax, H. (1991, March/April). Baby steps. Environmental
Action 22, 12 (4 p.). Retrieved November 29, 2005, from
EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database(Article number 9105060354).
Barrett, G.W. & Odum, E.P. (2000). The twenty-first century: The world at
carrying capacity. Bioscience 50, 363 (6 p.). Retrieved November
28, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database
(Article number 2940931).
Bender, W.H. (1997, March). How much food will we need in the
21st century? Environment 39, 7-28. Abstract only available
from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database.
Berreby, D. (1990, April). The numbers game. Discover 11, 42 (6 p.).
Abstract only available from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier
database.
Binney, G. (2001, November). Against conventional complacency:
Opting for smaller numbers. Ecologist 31, 59-62. Retrieved
December 1, 2005 from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier
database (Article number 5469356).
Bongaarts, J. (1994, March). Can the growing human population feed
itself? Scientific American 270, 36-42. Abstract only available
from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database.
Bongaarts, J. (1994). Population policy options in the developing
world. Science 263, 771-77. Abstract only available from
from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database (Article
number 9404111851).
Bongaarts, J. (1998). Demographic consequences of declining fertility.
Science 282, 419 (2 p.) Retrieved November 22, 2000 from EBSCOhost
Academic Search Premier database (Article number 1214596).
Bongaarts, J. (2002, January). Population: Ignoring its impact. Scientific
American 286, 67. (3 p.) Retrieved November 29, 2005,
from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database (Article
number 5638891).
Brown, L.R., Gardner, G. & B. Halwell. (1999, February). 16 impacts of
population growth. Futurist 33, 36 (7 p.). Retrieved November 29,
2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database (Article
number 1503443).
Budiansky, S. (1994, September 12). 10 billion for dinner, please. U.S.
News & World Report 117, 57 (4 p.). Retrieved November 29,
2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database (Article
number 9409077536). N.B. This article appeared under the description,
"Budiansky, S., et al. 1994. Population wars" in the BI131 handout.
Butler, C.D. (2004). Human Carrying Capacity and Human Health.
PLoS Medicine 1, e55. Retrieved December 1, 2005, from
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0010055
Carpenter, B. & Watson, T. (1994, September 12). More people, more pollution.
U.S. News & World Report 117, 63 (3 p.). Retrieved November 29,
2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database (Article
number 9409077541). N.B. This article appeared under the description,
"Budiansky, S., et al. 1994. Population wars" in the BI131 handout.
Cohen, J.E. (1992, November). How many people can earth hold? Discover
1, 114. (6 p.). Abstract only available from EBSCOhost Academic
Search Premier database.
Cohen, J.E. (1995). Population growth and earth's human carrying capacity.
Science 269, 341-345. Abstract only available from EBSCOhost
Academic Search Premier database.
Cohen, J.E. (1996, April). Ten myths of population. Discover 17, 42. (5 p.).
Abstract only available from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database.
Cohen, J.E. (2003). Human population: The next half century. Science
302, 1172-1175. Retrieved November 28, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic
Search Premier database (Article number 11546995).
Daily, G. et al. (1998). Food production, population growth, and the environment.
Science 281, 1291-1292. Retrieved November 29, 2005, from EBSCOhost
Academic Search Premier database (Article number 1040986).
Daily, G.C. & Ehrlich, P. (1992). Population, sustainability and the
Earth's carrying capacity. Bioscience 42, 761 (11 p.).
Retrieved November 29, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search
Premier database (Article number 9302143395).
Day, L.H. (2004, September/October). The positive side of the older
populations To come. World Watch 17, 55-57. Retrieved November 30,
2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier databases (Article
Number 14275982). N.B. This is listed under the title, "Population
and its discontents" in the BI131 handout.
Ehrlich, A. (1985, July/August). Critical masses. Humanist 45, 18-36.
Ehrlich, P.R. (2003). Get off the train and walk. Conservation Biology
17, 352 (2 p.) Retrieved November 29, 2005, from EBSCOhost
Academic Search Premier database (Article number 9377934).
Ehrlich, P. and Ehrlich, A. (1997). Ehrlich's fables. Technology
Review 100, 38-47. Retrieved November 29, 2005, from EBSCOhost
Academic Search Premier database (Article number 9701222409).
Ehrlich, P.R. and Ehrlich, A. (2006, September 30). Enough already. New
Scientist 191, 46-50. Retrieved October 31, 2006, from EBSCOhost
Academic Search Premier database (Article number 22720966).
Fornos, W. (1998, July/August). No vacancy. Humanist 58, 15-18.
Retrieved November 29, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search
Premier database (Article number 776670).
Henderson, C. (1993). Population pressures and political repression.
Social Science Quarterly 74, 322-333. Retrieved December
1, 2005 from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database (Article
number 9311103794).
Hinrichsen, D. (1994, September/October). Putting the bite on planet
earth. International Wildlife 24, 36-45. Retrieved November 29,
2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database
(Article number 9408243345).
Hinrichsen, D. (1999, September/October). 6,000,000,000 consumption
machines. International Wildlife 29, 22 (8 p.). Retrieved November
29, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database (Article
number 2158858).
Kates, R.W. (1994, October). Sustaining life on earth. Scientific
American 271, 114-121.
Keyfitz, N. (1989, September). The growing human population. Scientific
American 261, 119-126.
King, M. & Elliott, C. (1997). To the point of farce: a Martian view of
the Hardinian taboo--the silence that surrounds population control.
BMJ 315, 1441-1443. Retrieved December 2, 2005, from
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/315/7120/1441
Jha, S. & Bawa, K.S. (2006). Population growth, human development,
and deforestation in biodiversity hotspots. Conservation
Biology 20, 906-912.
Linden, E. (1992, Fall). Too many people. Time 140, 64-65.
Retrieved November 29, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search
Premier database (Article number 9210050840).
Loefler, I. (2003). The population trap. BMJ 326, 507. Retrieved
November 22, 2005, from
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/507
Lynas, M. (2004, February 23). The biomass of human bodies now exceeds
by a hundred times that of any large animal species that ever
existed on land. New Statesman 133), 23-25.
Retrieved December 1, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier
database (Article Number 12312246).
McDaniel, C. (2003). Elephant in the room. Conservation Biology 17,
954-956. Retrieved November 22, 2005 from EBSCOhost Academic
Search Premier database (Article Number 10327074).
MacFarquhar, E. (1994, September 12). Population wars. U.S. News &
World Report 117, 54 (4 p). Retrieved November 29, 2005, from
EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database (Article number
9409077530). N.B. This article appeared under the description,
"Budiansky, S., et al. 1994. Population wars" in the BI131 handout.
MacKenzie, D. (1994, September). Will tomorrow's children starve? New
Scientist 143, 24-29.
McKibben, B. (1999, November/December). Taking the pulse of the planet.
Audubon 101, 104-110.
McMichael, A. (2002). Population, environment, disease, and survival:
Past patterns, and uncertain futures. Lancet 359, 1145-1149.
Retrieved November 22, 2005 from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier
database (Article Number 6403406).
McNamara, R. (1984). Time bomb or myth: The population problem. Foreign
Affairs 62, 1107-1131. Retrieved November 22, 2005 from EBSCOhost
Academic Search Premier database (Article Number 14022884).
Mann, C. (1993, February). How many is too many?. Atlantic Monthly 271,
47-60. Retrieved November 22, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search
Premier database (Article Number 9301210945).
Mastny, L. (2004, September/October). The hazards of youth. World
Watch 17, 18-21. Retrieved November 30, 2005, from EBSCOhost
Academic Search Premier databases (Article number 14275964).
N.B. This is listed under the title, "Population and its
discontents" in the BI131 handout.
Mitchell, J. (1998, January/February). Before the next doubling. eu
WorldWatch 11, 20-29. Retrieved January 1, 2007, from
http://www.worldwatch.org/system/files/EP111A.pdf
Note: You must register to access this publication.
Motavalli, J. (1996, November/December). Contents under pressure. E
Magazine 7, 28-37.Retrieved November 29, 2005, from EBSCOhost
Academic Search Premier database (Article number 9612021758).
Murray, A. (1985, July/August). A global accounting. Environment 27,
7-14. Retrieved December 1, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic
Search Premier database (Article Number 6915133).
Nicholson-Lord, D. (2006, November). The numbers game. Ecologist 36,
22-24. Retrieved October 31, 2006, from EBSCOhost Academic Search
Premier database (Article number 22697944).
Nierenberg, D. (2004, September/October). The population story ... so far.
World Watch 17, 14-17. Retrieved November 28, 2005, from EBSCOhost
Academic Search Premier databases (Article number 14275961).
N.B. This is listed under the title, "Population
and its discontents" in the BI131 handout.
Norse, D. (1992, June). A new strategy for feeding a crowded planet. Environment
34, 6 (14 p.). Retrieved November 29, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic
Search Premier database (Article number 9206223280).
Pimenetel, D. & Pimenetel, M. (2003). World population, food, natural
resources, and survival. World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution
59, 145-167. Retrieved December 1, 2005 from EBSCOhost Academic Search
Premier database (Article number 12761616)
Pimentel, D. & Wilson, A. (2004, September/October). World population,
agriculture, and malnutrition. World Watch 17, 22-25. Retrieved November
30, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier databases (Article number
14275965). N.B. This is listed under the title, "Population
and its discontents" in the BI131 handout.
Prosterman, R.L., Hanstad, T. & Ping, L. (1996, November). Can China feed itself?
Scientific American 275, 90-96. Retrieved November 30, 2005, from EBSCOhost
Academic Search Premier database (Article number 9702285836).
Raloff, J. (1996, June 22). The human numbers crunch. Science News 149,
396-397. Retrieved November 29, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search
Premier database (Article number 9606267779).
Roush, W. (1994). Population: The view from Cairo. Science 265, 1164-1167.
Sadik, N. (1991, March/April). World population continues to rise. Futurist
25, 9-14. Retrieved November 29, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search
Premier database (Article number 9104292669).
Sai, F.T. (2004, September/October). Population, Family planning, and the
future of Africa. World Watch 17, 34-37. Retrieved November 30,
2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier databases (Article number
14275971). N.B. This is listed under the title, "Population
and its discontents" in the BI131 handout.
Six Billion and Counting. (2004, December). Canada & the World
Backgrounder 70, 4-6. Retrieved December 1, 2005 from EBSCOhost
Academic Search Premier database (Article Number 15661821).
Smail, J.K. (2004, September/October). Global population reduction:
confronting the inevitable. World Watch 17, 58-59. Retrieved November
30, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier databases (Article
Number 14275984). N.B. This is listed under the title, "Population
and its discontents" in the BI131 handout.
Smith, C. 1995. Assessing the limits to growth. Bioscience 45, 478-483.
Retrieved November 30, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search
Premier database (Article number 9507125935).
Vitousek, P.M., Mooney, H.A. (1997). Human domination of Earth's ecosystems.
Science 277, 494-499.Retrieved November 30, 2005, from EBSCOhost
Academic Search Premier database (Article number 9708050530).
The following books are listed in the CCRLS catalog as being at Chemeketa, available for request from another CCRLS location, or available for request through Summit. (See Requesting Materials for instructions on how to do this.) Some are available on the World Wide Web, as indicated:
Bouvier, L.F. and L. Grant. (1994). How many Americans?: Population, immigration
and the environment. San Francisco: Sierra Club.
Brown, L.R., Gardner, G. & Halweil, B. (1999). Beyond Malthus: Nineteen
dimensions of the population challenge. Washington, DC: WorldWatch.
Retrieved December 5, 2005, from http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1079
Note: You must register to access this publication.
Library system has:
Brown, L.R., Gardner, G. & Halweil, B. (1998). Beyond Malthus:
sixteen dimensions of the population problem. Washington, DC:
Worldwatch.
Brown, L.R. & Kane, H. (1994). Full house : reassessing the earth's population
carrying capacity . New York: W.W. Norton.
Cincotta, R.P., Engelman, R. & Anastasion, D. (2003). The security
demographic: population and civil conflict after the Cold War.
Washington, DC: Population Action International.
Cincotta, R.P. & Engelman, R. (2000). Nature's place : human population
and the future of biological diversity. Washington, DC:
Action International.
Durning, A.T. & Crowther, C.D. (1997). Misplaced blame: the
real roots of population growth. Seattle: Northwest Environment Watch.
Egendorf, L. (Ed.). (2005). The environment: Opposing viewpoints.
Detroit: Greenhaven.
Ehrlich, P. & Ehrlich, A. (1990). The population explosion. New York:
Simon and Schuster.
Ehrlich, P., Ehrlich, A. & Daily,G.C. (1995). The stork and the plow:
the equity answer to the human dilemma. New York: Putnam's.
Erickson, J. (1999). The Human Volcano: population growth as geological force.
New York : Facts on File.
Harrison, P. & Pearce, F. (2000). AAAS atlas of population & environment.
Berkeley, CA : University of California Press.
Hohm, C.F. & Jones, L.J. & Lio, S. (Eds.). (2000). Population: Opposing viewpoints.
San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press.
Hohm, C.F. & Jones, L.J. (1995). Population : opposing viewpoints.
San Diego: Greenhaven.
International Food Policy Research Institute. (2002). Sustainable food
security for all by 2020: Proceedings of an international conference.
Washington, D.C.: the Institute.
Lader, L. (1971). Breeding ourselves to death. New York: Ballantine.
Larsen, J. (2002). Population Growing by 80 million annually. In L.R. Brown,
J. Larsen & B. Fischlowitz-Roberts (Eds.) The Earth Policy Reader
(pp. 87-90). New York: Norton. Retrieved December 1, 2005 from
http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/EPR_contents.htm
Larsen, J. (2004). World population grew by 76 million people in 2004:
3 million added in the industrial world and 73 million in the developing
world. Retrieved November 30, 2005, from Earth Policy Institute Web
site: http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/Pop/2004.htm
Markley, O.W. & McCuan, W.R. (1996). 21st century earth : opposing viewpoints.
San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press.
Mastny, L. & Cincotta, R.P. (2005). Examining the connections between
population and security. [chapter] In Brown, L. et al. (Eds.), State
of the world 2005: A WorldWatch Institute report on progress toward
a sustainable society (pp. 22-39). New York: w.w. Norton.
Mazur, L.A. (1994). Beyond the numbers. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
Meyers, N. & Simon, J. (1994). Scarcity or abundance?. New York: Norton
This book is available in manuscript form at
http://www.juliansimon.org/writings/Norton/.
Murdock, S.H. (1995). An America challenged: Population change and the future
of the U.S. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Rosenzweig, M.L. (1974). And replenish the earth : the evolution, consequences,
and prevention of overpopulation. New York: Harper & Row.
World at risk : a global issues sourcebook. (2002). Washington, D.C.:
CQ Press.
Meadows, D.H., Meadows, L. & Randers, J. (1992). Beyond the limits:
confronting global collapse, envisioning a sustainable future Mills,
VT: Chelsea Green.
Below are the Web pages included in the BI131 handout.
Population Action International. Retrieved
November 30, 2005, from http://populationaction.org
United Nations Population Fund. (2005). State of world population 2006.
Retrieved November 30, 2005, from http://www.unfpa.org/swp/swpmain.htm
The following books and articles are not available in the CCRLS system, but may be requested through interlibrary loan:
Brown, L. & Flavin, C. (1988, July/August). Earth's vital signs.
Futurist 22, 13-21. Retrieved December 1, 2005 from EBSCOhost Academic
Search Premier database (Article number 8800011999).
Ehrlich, P. & Ehrlich, A. (1997). The population explosion: Why we should care
and what we should do about it. Environmental Law 27, 1187-1208.
Grant, L. (1992). Elephants and Volkswagens. New York: W.H. Freeman.
McNicoll, G. (1998). Malthus for the twenty-first century. Population and
Development Review 24, 309-316.
Postel, S. (1994, March/April). Carrying capacity: Earth's bottom line.
Challenge 37, 4-12.
Smith, E. (1992, May 11). Growth vs. environment. Business Week
3265, 66-75. Retrieved December 1, 2005 from EBSCOhost Academic
Search Premier database (Article Number 9205111632).
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