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Part One: Entangling Alliances. 1: The challenge of limits. 2: Overpopulation: Escape to the stars?. 3: Uneasy litter-mates: Population and progress. 4: Population theory: Academia's stepchild. 5: Default status: Making sense of the world. 6: The ambivalent triumph of optimism. 7: Cowboy economics vs. spaceship ecology. 8: Growth: Real and spurious. 9: Exponential growth of populations. 10: What Malthus missed. 11: The demostat. 12: Generating the future. 13: Limits: A constrained view. 14: From Jevons's coal to Hubbert's pimple. Part Two: Looking for the Bluebird. 15: Nuclear power: A non-solution. 16: Trying to escape Malthus. 17: The benign demographic transition. Part Three: Biting the Bullet. 18: Making room for human will. 19: Major default positions of human biology. 20: Carrying capacity. 21: The global pillage: Consequences of unmanaged commons. 22: Discriminating altruisms. 23: The double C - Double P game. 24: Birth control vs. population control. 25: Population control: Natural vs. human. 26: The necessity of immigration control. 27: Recapitulation: And a look ahead. Notes and references. Index