Toward a Small Family Ethic How Overpopulation and Climate Change Are Affecting the Morality of Procreation

This thought-provoking treatise argues that current human fertility rates are fueling a public health crisis that is at once local and global. Its analysis and data summarize the ecological costs of having children, presenting ethical dilemmas for prospective parents in an era of competition for sca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rieder, Travis N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2016, 2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016
Series:SpringerBriefs in Public Health Ethics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Global Population Crisis
  • The Collective Action Problem
  • Duties to Possible Children
  • Duty Not to (Contribute to) Harm
  • Duties of Justice
  • Duties of Rescue
  • Demandingness, Integrity and Morality
  • Duty and Intimacy
  • Conclusion