{"product_id":"limits-why-malthus-was-wrong-and-why-environmentalists-should-care-9781503611559","title":"Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Giorgos Kallis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Stanford Briefs\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Stanford Briefs\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Environmental Conservation \u0026amp; Protection - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestern culture is infatuated with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by the specter of apocalypse: drought, famine, nuclear winter. How did we come to think of the planet and its limits as we do? This book reclaims, redefines, and makes an impassioned plea for limits-a notion central to environmentalism-clearing them from their association with Malthusianism and the ideology and politics that go along with it. Giorgos Kallis rereads reverend-economist Thomas Robert Malthus and his legacy, separating limits and scarcity, two notions that have long been conflated in both environmental and economic thought. Limits are not something out there, a property of nature to be deciphered by scientists, but a choice that confronts us, one that, paradoxically, is part and parcel of the pursuit of freedom. Taking us from ancient Greece to Malthus, from hunter-gatherers to the Romantics, from anarchist feminists to 1970s radical environmentalists, \u003ci\u003eLimits\u003c\/i\u003e shows us how an institutionalized culture of sharing can make possible the collective self-limitation we so urgently need.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford Briefs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45036414861463,"sku":"9781503611559","price":1463.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781503611559.webp?v=1769213275","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/limits-why-malthus-was-wrong-and-why-environmentalists-should-care-9781503611559","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}