{"id":59859,"date":"2021-10-13T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59859"},"modified":"2021-10-13T07:05:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T12:05:14","slug":"book-review-by-aj-our-one-and-only-spaceship-denial-delusion-and-the-population-crisis-by-eric-pianka-laurie-vitt-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59859","title":{"rendered":"Book review by AJ: Our One and Only Spaceship: Denial, Delusion and the Population Crisis by Eric Pianka & Laurie Vitt (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Book review by AJ: Our One and Only Spaceship: Denial, Delusion and the Population Crisis by Eric Pianka & Laurie Vitt (2019)<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Thanks to AJ for contributing this book review.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/oneandonlyspaceship.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/our-one-and-only-spaceship-eric-pianka\/1133496721?ean=9781733030533<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher\u2019s Summary<\/p>\n

Ecologists\u00a0Eric R. Pianka<\/a>\u00a0(University of Texas) and\u00a0Laurie J. Vitt<\/a>\u00a0(University of Oklahoma) provide a scientific summary of the overpopulation crisis facing humanity and itemize its many consequences, including climate change (global warming), conservation biology, economic systems, energy and resource shortages, human instincts, immigration conflicts, politics, pollution, poverty, technological problems, and solutions needed. Their underlying thesis is that denial and delusion work synergistically to undermine our ability to confront these serious issues, and unless we undertake proactive measures now, overpopulation and its impact on resource competition and climate change will ultimately lead to the collapse of civilization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Authors\u2019 Overview<\/p>\n

In Road to Survival 70 years ago, William Vogt tried to call attention to the human overpopulation crisis, but failed. Paul Ehrlich raised this issue again 20 years later but was also widely ignored. We wish to re-open this long overdue and much needed discussion about population, a toxic topic that politicians globally avoid. We have written a book \u201cOur One and Only Spaceship:Denial, Delusion and the Population Crisis.\u201d We are two well-known ecologists Eric R. Pianka (University of Texas) and Laurie J. Vitt (University of Oklahoma).<\/p>\n

Our book is based on a great deal of research that we have conducted into the topic and on a course that Pianka taught.\u00a0http:\/\/www.zo.utexas.edu\/courses\/THOC\/<\/a><\/p>\n

We have edited and written books together, both scientific and semi-popular. Using fact-based analyses, we make the case that human population size and growth is the greatest threat to human survival, and that most if not every major global problem (including spread of AIDS and other communicable diseases, wars and other conflicts, climate change and in particular global warming, food water and energy shortages, poverty, political unrest, pollution, extinctions, etc.) are all direct results of overpopulation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Book review by AJ: Our One and Only Spaceship: Denial, Delusion and the Population Crisis by Eric Pianka & Laurie Vitt (2019) Thanks to AJ for contributing this book review. https:\/\/oneandonlyspaceship.com\/ https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/our-one-and-only-spaceship-eric-pianka\/1133496721?ean=9781733030533 Publisher\u2019s Summary Ecologists\u00a0Eric R. Pianka\u00a0(University of Texas) and\u00a0Laurie J. Vitt\u00a0(University of Oklahoma) provide a scientific summary of the overpopulation crisis facing humanity and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[1760,1330,234,31955,391,31956,606,30702],"class_list":["post-59859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-book-review","tag-denial","tag-ecology","tag-eric-pianka","tag-growth","tag-laurie-vitt","tag-overpopulation","tag-un-denial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59860,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59859\/revisions\/59860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}