The consumption bomb
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19502886 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colin D Butler (0000-0002-2942-5294, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 209-218 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medicine Conflict & Survival (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-3699 • E-ISSN: 1743-9396 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13623699708409341 |
| PMID | 9290328 |
| OpenAlex | W2053610300 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 32 |
The explosion of the population bomb has long been predicted to cause massive famine in overpopulated countries. Rising consumption, even in a time of decreasing population growth rates, now threatens adverse global health effects more severe than localised famines. The world faces potential ecological entrapment. This has two dimensions: planetary eco-impoverisation and planetary eco-pathology. Eco-impoverisation, the depletion of natural capital, arises as the limit of the global human carrying capacity approaches. Eco-pathology, the disruption of ecological support systems, arises because of the way the biosphere has been modified by human activity and is caused particularly by unsustainable consumption for human purposes. Despite encroaching ecological entrapment, the dominant economic paradigm claims record levels of growth; a paradox that needs recognition. Reasons for denial of the gravity of ecological entrapment are discussed. Ways are suggested to defuse the consumption bomb and avert ecological entrapment
Biology · Biosphere · Denial · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Famine · Geography · Human capital · Natural resource economics · Population · Population growth · Sociology · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Medicine · Psychology · Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy · Ecology
Population Growth and Earth's Human Carrying Capacity
Our Ecological Footprint
Does demographic entrapment challenge the two-child paradigm
Revisiting carrying capacity
Traditional epidemiology, modern epidemiology, and public health
Emerging diseases and ecosystem instability
Scarcity or Abundance? A Debate on the Environment
Climate Change and Human Health
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |