Homage to Garrett Hardin: Nobody Ever Died of Global Climate Change

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dc.contributor.authorCairns, John Jr.en
dc.contributor.departmentBiological Sciencesen
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-23T02:36:31Zen
dc.date.available2014-01-23T02:36:31Zen
dc.date.issued2008en
dc.description.abstractIn 1971, Garrett Hardin published an editorial entitled _Nobody Ever Dies of Overpopulation based on the cyclone that struck East Bengal and killed an estimated 500,000 people. Overcrowding forced people to live in a dangerous place like the Gangetic Delta which is barely above sea level. Now, 37 years later, a similar situation is unfolding in the Ganges River Delta in Bangladesh. This delta is also barely above sea level, and the water keeps rising due to global warming. If a large storm were to create hurricanes in this area housing and agricultural areas would be destroyed as well as power lines and water supply which would interfere with food deliveries and medical assistance. In a worst case scenario environmental refugees could reach 25 million and the death toll could be in the millions. If global climate change was one of the antecedent causes to this worst case scenario, would seal level rise and sever weather truly be the cause of deaths?en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/25081en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.johncairns.net/Commentaries/Homage_to_Garrett_Hardin.pdfen
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectclimate changeen
dc.subjectglobal warmingen
dc.subjectecological overshooten
dc.subjectover populationen
dc.subjectGarrett Hardinen
dc.titleHomage to Garrett Hardin: Nobody Ever Died of Global Climate Changeen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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