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- Title
Environmentalism and Population Control: Distinguishing Pro-Life and Anti-Life Motives.
- Authors
George, Marie I.
- Abstract
Environmentalists commonly offer three motives for why human populations need to be reduced or stabilized. One group maintains that human numbers threaten natural goods that should be preserved: biodiversity and ecosystems. A more extreme group maintains that we are taking up more than our fair share of the planet, eliminating species that havejust as much right to be here. A third group advocates controlling human populations in order to prevent the environment from being degraded to the point that it harms people. I intend to examine in light of Catholic social teaching whether these proposed motives for controlling population are always anti-life.
- Subjects
ENVIRONMENTALISM &; religion; CATHOLIC Christian sociology; ENVIRONMENTALISTS; CHRISTIANITY &; birth control; FAMILY size; CHRISTIANITY
- Publication
Catholic Social Science Review, 2013, Vol 18, p71
- ISSN
1091-0905
- Publication type
Article