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Maybe One:a Case For Smaller Families
[Paperback - 1999]
bill mckibben
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Category: Sociology
Sub-category: Sociology
Additional Category: Family & Parenting - Anthropology
Publisher: Plume | ISBN: 9780452280922 | Pages: 256
Shipping Weight: .246 | Dimensions: 5.32 x .66 x 8 inches

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In light of climate change warnings, more families are looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint and help prevent disasters like rising sea levels, wildfires, and increasing global temperatures. In this compelling book, the author of The End of Nature and Falter argues for a solution with sociological, population, and environmental benefits: having fewer children.

The earth is becoming dangerously overcrowded, and if more families chose to have only one child, it would make a crucial difference toward ensuring a healthy future for ourselves and our planet for generations to come.

But the environment alone may not persuade most people to consider having just one child, as 80% of Americans have siblings. Powerful stereotypes about only children—that they’re spoiled, selfish, or maladjusted in some way—still persist. McKibben, the proud father of an only child himself, debunks these myths, citing research about the many emotional and intellectual strengths only children possess, including higher test scores, higher levels of achievement in school, and greater development of positive personality traits like maturity and self-control.

At once a powerful personal argument and an accessible exploration of what overpopulation could mean to human life and environmental sustainability, Maybe One is a provocative yet well-reasoned opening to what has become important and lasting debate.

About the Author

Bill McKibben is the author ofEaarth,The End of Nature,Deep Economy,Enough,Fight Global Warming Now,The Bill McKibben Reader, and numerous other books. He is the founder of the environmental organizations Step It Up and 350.org, and was among the first to warn of the dangers of global warming. In 2010The Boston Globecalled him "probably the nation's leading environmentalist," andTimemagazine has called him "the world's best green journalist." He studied at Harvard, and started his writing career as a staff writer atThe New Yorker.The End of Nature, his first book, was published in 1989 and was regarded as the first book on climate change for a general audience. He is a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers includingThe New York Times,The Atlantic Monthly,Harper's,Orion Magazine,Mother Jones,The New York Review of Books,Granta,Rolling Stone, andOutside. He has been awarded Guggenheim Fellowship and won the Lannan Prize for nonfiction writing in 2000. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and their daughter.http://us.macmillan.com/author/billmc...

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