TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hedberg,Trevor
AU  - Hedberg,Trevor
TI  - The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation
T2  - Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
SN  - 9781032236766
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Taylor & Francis, Routledge [Imprint]
KW  - Applied ecology
KW  - thema
KW  - Climate change
KW  - Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning
KW  - Environmental management
KW  - Environmental policy and protocols
KW  - Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure
KW  - Nature and the natural world: general interest
KW  - Pollution and threats to the environment
KW  - The environment
KW  - Capita Ecological Footprint
KW  - Capita GHG Emission
KW  - climate change
KW  - Current Population Size
KW  - Direct Moral Standing
KW  - Ecological Footprint
KW  - Etonogestrel Contraceptive Implants
KW  - Future People
KW  - Global GHG Emission
KW  - Global Humanitarian Forum
KW  - intergenerational equity
KW  - Large Families
KW  - Maximin Rule
KW  - Moral Cosmopolitanism
KW  - Non-identity Problem
KW  - Objective List Theories
KW  - overpopulation
KW  - Population Reduction
KW  - procreation ethics
KW  - Procreative Activities
KW  - Procreative Autonomy
KW  - Procreative Choices
KW  - Procreative Freedom
KW  - Pursuing Gender Justice
KW  - Reduce Animal Suffering
KW  - Reduce GHG Emission
KW  - Replacement Level Fertility
KW  - species extinctions
KW  - UN
KW  - Violating
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - This book examines the link between population growth and environmental impact and explores the implications of this connection for the ethics of procreation. In light of climate change, species extinctions, and other looming environmental crises, Trevor Hedberg argues that we have a collective moral duty to halt population growth to prevent environmental harms from escalating. This book assesses a variety of policies that could help us meet this moral duty, confronts the conflict between protecting the welfare of future people and upholding procreative freedom, evaluates the ethical dimensions of individual procreative decisions, and sketches the implications of population growth for issues like abortion and immigration. It is not a book of tidy solutions: Hedberg highlights some scenarios where nothing we can do will enable us to avoid treating some people unjustly. In such scenarios, the overall objective is to determine which of our available options will minimize the injustice that occurs. This book will be of great interest to those studying environmental ethics, environmental policy, climate change, sustainability, and population policy
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94108
ER  -