The Coming Age of Scarcity (Paperback)

Michael N. Dobkowski

ISBN 10: 0815627440 / ISBN 13: 9780815627449

Published by Syracuse University Press, New York, 1998

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Paperback. Michael Dobkowski and Isidor Walliman have edited a book that, although ominous, is not a fatalistic look at the future. The Coming Age of Scarcity lays out the perils of not recognizing the reality of genocide or of acknowledging the full implications of warfare. Showing how scarcity and surplus populations can lead to disaster, The Coming Age of Scarcity is about evil. It tells of "ethnic cleansing" and excavates the world's expanding killing fields. The writers in this volume are all too aware that the future suggests that present-day population growth, land resources, energy consumption, and per capita consumption cannot be sustained without leading to greater catastrophes. The essays in this volume ask: What is the solution in the face of mass death and genocide? As philosopher John K. Roth says in the Foreword, "The essays can sensitize us against despair and indifference because history shows that human-made mass death and genocide are not inevitable, and no events related to them will ever be." A consideration of what the future may hold for us in the upcoming century. It lays out the perils of not recognizing the reality of genocide or of acknowledging the full implications of warfare. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Coming Age of Scarcity (Paperback)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815627440
• ISBN 13: 9780815627449
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Lays out the perils of not recognizing the reality of genocide and ignoring the full implications of warfare. Shows how scarcity and surplus populations can lead to disaster, and suggests that present-day population growth, land resources, energy consumption, and per capita consumption cannot be sustained without leading to greater catastrophes. Subjects include biophysical limits to industrialization, the social impact of scarcity, postcolonial genocide, and lessons from Bosnia, Somalia, and Haiti. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About the Author

<b>Michael N. Dobkowski</b> is professor of religious studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is author of <i>The Tarnished Dream: The Basis of </i><i>American Anti-Semitism,</i> <i>The Politics of lndifference: Documentary History of </i><i>Holocaust Victims in America,</i> and <i>Jewish American Voluntary Organizations.</i> <b>Isidor Wallimann</b> is senior lecturer in sociology at the School of Social Work, Basel, Switzerland, and a lecturer at the University of Fribourg. He is author of <i>Estrangrement: Marx's Conception of Human Nature and the Division</i> <i>of Labor.</i>