As the world welcomes its seven billionth human: reflections on population, law, and the environment

Twenty years ago, Praeger Publications of Westport Connecticut published this author’s book “Population, Law and the Environment”, in which the case was made for identifying human population expansion as the key environmental issue of our times. This case rested in large part on linking together cultural and legal issues, which theretofore had not always been considered to be related to environmental protection, such as abortion, the rights of women, contraception, immigration, family planning, and policies of economic growth. There have been considerable developments in these areas which have spurred this author to update his book, this time in the form of this article which both condenses the content of his previously published book where apposite (including passages which are incorporated verbatim from his previous work), and updates the most recent data supporting its original premise. The case is renewed herein for linking those areas which continue to be widely ignored or rejected as relevant to environmentalism, while at the same time urging that the environmental movement and the law that supports it expand its current narrow focus on the “A” and “T” factors of Holdren’s brilliantly conceived equation (I=PAT), and recognize the more critical “P” component, which in turn is a reflection of how both domestic and international law promulgates and enforces law in the areas identified in this article. The name that the author has adopted for this proposed change of focus is “Environmental Malthusianism.”Keywords: Population, Environment, Law, Climate Chang

Christian postmodernism : a constructive proposal for an incarnational theology for contemporary America

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Race and Income Disparity: An Ideology-Neutral Approach To Reconciling Capitalism And Economic Justice

Income and wealth disparities along racial lines in the United States constitute a continuing threat to the political and democratic stability upon which the economy and government of the United States fundamentally depends. The quest for solutions to these economic disparities has thus far been frustrated by ideological battles between political groups and coalitions. In particular, ideological preconceptions have prevented these groups from listening to the ideas and proposals of opposing groups and working together to find real solutions to the problem of income disparities that actually work. Instead, they have created policies which, while fitting within a preconceived ideological framework, may exacerbate the problems sought to be addressed, and in many cases cause both unintended and undesired consequences. The fault for society’s failure to adequately address income disparity along racial lines does not lie exclusively with any one political group or party. Both liberals and conservatives have permitted ideology to cloud their search for meaningful solutions. If these solutions are to be found, conservatives must discard ideological preconceptions in such areas as abortion rights, family planning, and drug policy; liberals must likewise discard ideology in their approach to tax policy, immigration, housing, and education. Both conservatives and liberals must discard ideological preconceptions and abandon politically seductive, but ultimately demagogic and self-defeating policies relating to international trade, and residential exclusionary policies, particularly in the areas of zoning

Hardaway Family Papers - Accession 222

The Hardaway Family Papers consist of biographical and family history data, diaries, financial records, memoirs, correspondence, plantation records, and newspaper clippings of the Hardaway family, which resided principally in Alabama and Georgia. The plantation records relate to the plantation of Robert Archelaus Hardaway (1828-1897), located in Bullock’s County,Alabama. Since most of the family members were primarily in the engineering profession, there is much material concerning their work with various engineering projects in the Southeast, particularly Alabama, Georgia, Texas, and New Mexico.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1367/thumbnail.jp