Too Many People?: Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus & Simon Butler

Author:Ian Angus & Simon Butler [Angus, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781608461677
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2011-10-17T16:00:00+00:00

Instead of the “trickle down” economics we’re often told about, the South has for centuries been the victim of “flood up” economics—a flow of wealth from the poorest countries to the richest that has not been offset by investment and aid. In the last decades of the twentieth century, the imposition of neoliberal “free trade” policies turned the flood into a torrent.

Since the beginning of the crisis in the 1970s, the world has experienced a series of major changes that have progressively eroded living conditions for a majority of the inhabitants of the planet. Mass unemployment has settled in, the unequal distribution of wealth has intensified, and workers’ wages have fallen sharply. In addition, there are the disastrous consequences of closing the borders of industrialized countries to migrants, increasing recourse to violence in case of conflict, destroying the environment (the greenhouse effect, pollution, massive deforestation, etc.), and deregulating food production.17

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