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World population / by Farrell, Courtney.(CARDINAL)487387;
Includes bibliographical references (page 104, 106-108) and index.A child in a crowded world -- The struggle to survive -- Influences on populations -- Predicting the future -- Ecosystem services -- The status of women -- Governmental regulations -- Declining resources -- Solutions for a sustainable world -- Timeline -- Essential facts -- Glossary.
Subjects: Overpopulation; Population;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Elysium [videorecording] / by Blomkamp, Neill,1979-,film director,producer.(CARDINAL)849210; Block, Bill,producer.(CARDINAL)845885; Kinberg, Simon,producer.(CARDINAL)357096; Damon, Matt,actor.(CARDINAL)267441; Foster, Jodie,actor.(CARDINAL)361370; Copley, Sharlto,1973-(CARDINAL)346658; Braga, Alice.(CARDINAL)340671; Luna, Diego,1979-; Moura, Wagner,1976-; Fichtner, William.; Tri-Star Pictures.(CARDINAL)809902; Media Rights Capital (Firm)(CARDINAL)348483; QED International.; Alphacore (Firm); Kinberg Genre (Firm)(CARDINAL)357095; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)282399;
Music, Ryan Amon ; visual effects supervisor, Peter Muyzers ; editor, Jillian Clarke, Lee Smith ; director of photography, Trent Opaloch.Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, Wagner Moura, William Fichtner.In the year 2154 two groups of people remain; the extremely wealthy who reside on an immaculate man-made space station named Elysium, and the rest, who occupy an overpopulated, destroyed Earth. Max decides to embark on a mission that could bring equality to the opposed worlds.MPAA rating: R; for strong bloody violence and language throughout.DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; 5.1. Dolby Digital.Title from disc surface.
Subjects: Feature films.; Science fiction films.; Action and adventure films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Space stations; Overpopulation;
Available copies: 31 / Total copies: 50
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Soylent green [videorecording] / by Cotten, Joseph,1905-1994.(CARDINAL)520561; Fleischer, Richard,film director.(CARDINAL)777756; Greenberg, Stanley R.,screenwriter.; Harrison, Harry,1925-2012.Make room! Make room!(CARDINAL)850008; Heston, Charlton.(CARDINAL)713093; Robinson, Edward G.,1893-1973.(CARDINAL)132118; Seltzer, Walter,1914-2011,film producer.; Taylor-Young, Leigh.(CARDINAL)844620; Thacher, Russell,1919-1990,film producer.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,production company.(CARDINAL)150193; Warner Home Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)218485;
Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Joseph Cotten, Leigh Taylor-Young.In the year 2022, people rely on Soylent Green, a strange foodstuff, in order to survive. But what is Soylent Green made out of? Based on the novel by Harry Harrison.MPAA rating: PG.Blu-ray Disc, metrocolor panavision, 1080p high definition 16x9 (2.4:1) widescreen, DTS-HD MA 1.0, Dolby digital 1.0, ; requires Blu-ray player.
Subjects: Feature films.; Film adaptations.; Science fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Overpopulation;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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Countdown [large print] : our last, best hope for a future on Earth? / by Weisman, Alan,author.(CARDINAL)189247;
A weary land of four questions -- A world bursting its seams -- Body counts and the paradox of food -- Carrying capacity and the cradle -- Island world -- Holy See -- Gorillas in our midst -- The great wall of people -- The sea -- The bottom -- The world unraveling -- The Ayatollah giveth and taketh away -- Shrink and prosper -- Tomorrow -- Safe sex -- Parkland Earth -- The world with fewer of us.In this timely work, Alan Weisman examines how we can shrink our collective human footprint so that we don't stomp any more species -- including our own -- out of existence. The answer: reducing gradually and non-violently the number of humans on the planet whose activities, industries and lifestyles are damaging the Earth. "A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add humans back to this vision of a restored, healthy planet-only in harmony, not mortal combat, with the rest of nature. But with a million more of us every 4 1/2 days on a planet that's not getting any bigger, and with our exhaust overheating the atmosphere and altering the chemistry of the oceans, prospects for a sustainable human future seem ever more in doubt. For this long awaited follow-up book, Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed were the probably the most important questions on Earth-and also the hardest: How many humans can the planet hold without capsizing? How robust must the Earth's ecosystem be to assure our continued existence? Can we know which other species are essential to our survival? And, how might we actually arrive at a stable, optimum population, and design an economy to allow genuine prosperity without endless growth? Weisman visits an extraordinary range of the world's cultures, religions, nationalities, tribes, and political systems to learn what in their beliefs, histories, liturgies, or current circumstances might suggest that sometimes it's in their own best interest to limit their growth. The result is a landmark work of reporting: devastating, urgent, and, ultimately, deeply hopeful. By vividly detailing the burgeoning effects of our cumulative presence, Countdown reveals what may be the fastest, most acceptable, practical, and affordable way of returning our planet and our presence on it to balance. Weisman again shows that he is one of the most provocative journalists at work today, with a book whose message is so compelling that it will change how we see our lives and our destiny"--
Subjects: Large type books.; Nature; Overpopulation.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dr. Calhoun's mousery : the strange tale of a celebrated scientist, a rodent dystopia, and the future of humanity / by Dugatkin, Lee Alan,1962-Author(DLC)n 96045399 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-276) and index."It was the strangest of experiments. What began as a utopian environment, where mice had sumptuous accommodations, all the food and water they could want, and were free from disease and predation, turned into a mouse hell. Science writer and animal behaviorist Lee Alan Dugatkin reintroduces readers to the bizarre and compelling work of rodent researcher John Bumpass Calhoun. Readers see how Calhoun's experiments--rodent apartment complexes like "Mouse Universe 25"--led to his concept of "behavioral sinks" with real effects on public policy discussions of his day. Overpopulation in Calhoun's mouse complexes led to loss of sex drive, absence of maternal care, and a population of automatons, in Calhoun's words, "capable only of the most simple behaviors compatible with physiological survival." Calhoun--and the others who followed his work--saw this mouse population collapse as a harbinger for an overpopulated human world. Calhoun saw future rodent experiments on culture and cooperation as one solution"--.
Subjects: Biographies; Calhoun, John B.; Mice; Overpopulation.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The stork and the plow : the equity answer to the human dilemma / by Ehrlich, Paul R.(CARDINAL)153255; Ehrlich, Anne H.(CARDINAL)127914; Daily, Gretchen C.(CARDINAL)209652;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-352) and index.
Subjects: Overpopulation.; Food supply.; Poverty.; Pollution.; Human ecology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The stork and the plow : the equity answer to the human dilemma / by Ehrlich, Paul R.(CARDINAL)153255; Ehrlich, Anne H.(CARDINAL)127914; Daily, Gretchen C.(CARDINAL)209652;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-352) and index.Introduction: The Dilemma -- Ch. 1. The Human Juggernaut -- Ch. 2. The Only Animal That Practices Birth Control -- Ch. 3. Slowing the Stork -- Ch. 4. Government in the Bedroom -- Ch. 5. Gathering, Hunting, and Farming -- Ch. 6. The Environmental Connection -- Ch. 7. Expanding Food Availability -- Ch. 8. Toward Global Security.
Subjects: Overpopulation.; Food supply.; Poverty.; Pollution.; Human ecology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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The new wilderness : a novel / by Cook, Diane,1976-author.(CARDINAL)407855;
"Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment to see if humans can exist in nature without destroying it. Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers, they slowly and painfully learn to survive in an unpredictable, dangerous land, bickering and battling for power and control as they betray and save one another. But as Agnes embraces the wild freedom of this new existence, Bea realizes that saving her daughter's life means losing her in a different way. The farther they get from civilization, the more their bond is tested in astonishing and heartbreaking ways."--
Subjects: Survival fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Novels.; Air; Environmental quality; Overpopulation;
Available copies: 23 / Total copies: 26
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Planet under pressure : too many people on earth? / by Anniss, Matt.(CARDINAL)498746;
Includes bibliographical references (page 47) and index.
Subjects: Overpopulation; Nonrenewable natural resources;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Elysium [videorecording] / by Amon, Ryan.cmp; Block, Bill.pro(CARDINAL)845885; Blomkamp, Neill,1979-drtproaus(CARDINAL)849210; Braga, Alice.act(CARDINAL)340671; Copley, Sharlto,1973-act(CARDINAL)346658; Damon, Matt.act(CARDINAL)267441; Fichtner, William.act; Foster, Jodie.act(CARDINAL)361370; Kinberg, Simon.pro(CARDINAL)357096; Luna, Diego,1979-act; Moura, Wagner,1976-act; Alphacore (Firm); Kinberg Genre (Firm)(CARDINAL)357095; Media Rights Capital (Firm)(CARDINAL)348483; QED International.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)282399; Tri-Star Pictures.(CARDINAL)809902;
Director of photography, Trent Opaloch ; editor, Julian Clarke, Lee Smith ; music, Ryan Amon.Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, Wagner Moura, William Fichtner."In the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on a overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Delacourt ... will stop at nothing to preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium--but that doesn't stop the people of Earth from trying to get in by any means they can"--Container.MPAA rating: R; for strong bloody violence and language throughout.BluRay, regions A, B, C; 1080p high definition, 2.40:1, mastered in 4K; 7.1 DTS-HD MA (English), 5.1 DTS-HD MA (French), 5.1 Dolby digital (English, Spanish); requires Blu-ray player.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Science fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Equality; Overpopulation; Space stations;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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