Comments on: Book review – Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care

By: Book review – Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:33:54 +0000

[…] second half of the book presents solutions. Hickel acknowledges Giorgos Kallis’s call for a culture of self-limitation but thinks on a bigger canvas. To stave off ecological collapse we […]

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By: Book review – Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:05:22 +0000

[…] have an important role but will not be enough by themselves; I have elsewhere highlighted calls for a culture of self-limitation and ought to give the topic of economic degrowth some proper attention. I also think Sanderson […]

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By: Book review – Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 12:13:57 +0000

[…] The ideas explored here are all techno-fixes which only get you so far. In my opinion, cultivating an ethos of self-limitation has to be part of the answer. Monbiot admits that his proposed solutions will likely face stiff […]

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By: Book review – A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:09:58 +0000

[…] I have become increasingly receptive to ideas of scaling down and pulling back, and of cultivating an ethos of self-limitation, certainly in the West. These are unpopular topics, but that is no reason to avoid […]

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By: Book review – Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined – and Redefined – Nature | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:19:17 +0000

[…] I do not think this is an either-or proposition. However, having reviewed both Abundant Earth and Limits I question the anthropocentric notion that we are entitled to keep shaping the world around us for […]

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By: Book review – Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:19:01 +0000

[…] calls out, that this requires affluent Westerners to redefine what makes a good life and embrace an ethos of self-limitation. Meanwhile, addressing climate change gets the barest of mentions. And though he repeatedly points […]

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By: Book review – Life Changing: How Humans Are Altering Life on Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 10:18:44 +0000

[…] out loud. And beyond some hints at eating less meat, she does not really address what limits we ought to impose on ourselves if we want large-scale rewilding efforts to exist side-by-side with […]

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By: Book review – Future Sea: How to Rescue and Protect the World’s Oceans | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:06:34 +0000

[…] These discussions are hollow, hypocritical even, if they do not also consider the question of self-limitation: what is each of us willing to forego and give up for a better […]

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By: Book review – Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:29:32 +0000

[…] that, clearly, this would require a sea change in our attitudes: a society that embraces self-limitation rather than unfettered abundance. All of this is necessary, I agree, but it also seems almost […]

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By: Book review – A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:03:33 +0000

[…] towards a circular economy. This all ties in nicely, although it is not spelt out here, with an ethos of self-limitation that we need to […]

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