Stalking the wild taboo, Garrett Hardin

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Contents: pt. 1 Abortion -- Tactics in tackling taboos -- semantic aspects of abortion -- Abortion -- or compulsory pregnancy? -- Reformers are repeaters -- Abortion in anthropological perspective -- If right-to-lifers have their way -- pt. 2 Religion -- Failure teaches -- A second sermon on the mount -- Remarkable reversal of time at 41 52'N, 12 37 E -- Learning to say nothing -- Vulnerability-the strength of science -- The semantics of "space" -- Interstellar migration and the population problem -- A rapout on O'Neill's dream -- The insanity of the SST -- Earthquake: prediction worse than nature? -- Is civilization ready for nuclear power? -- Pejorism: the middle way -- Will Xerox kill Gutenberg? -- pt. 4 Competition -- Competition, a tabooed idea in sociology -- The cybernetics of competition -- Population, biology and the law -- Population skeletonsin the environmental closet -- The survival of nations and civilization -- pt. 5 "Need" as superstition -- Is this trip necessary? -- The trans-science of "necessity" -- Nobody ever dies of overpopulation -- Gregg's law -- Parenthood: right or privelege? -- Living on a lifeboat -- Trouble in the lifeboat -- Carrying capacity as an ethical concept -- The economics of wilderness

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