Population Growth, Resource Consumption, and the Environment: Seeking a Common Vision for a Troubled World

Simon Dalby is an assistant professor of geography at Carleton
University in Ottawa.

This slim volume provides an accessible summary of the proceedings of a
conference that was organized by the University of Victoria’s Centre
for Studies in Religion and Society and held in Whistler in 1993.
Experts from around the world offered ethical and religious perspectives
on environmental degradation and resource depletion, along with some
suggestions for public-policy initiatives.

The book is divided into five sections: the current global
environmental crisis, ethical insights drawn from major religious
traditions, contemporary ethical thinking, deep ecology, and legal
perspectives and probable policy options and responses from
corporations, religions, and governments. A good starting point on a
subject that is treated in greater depth in Population, Consumption and
the Environment, edited by Harold Coward and published by the State
University of New York Press.