pt. 1. Entangling alliances
Overpopulation : escape to the stars?
Uneasy litter-mates : population and progress
Population theory : academia's stepchild
Default status : making sense of the world
The ambivalent triumph of optimism
Cowboy economics versus spaceship ecology
Growth : real and spurious
Exponential growth of populations
Limits : a constrained view
From Jevons's coal to Hubbert's pimple
pt. 2. Looking for the bluebird
Nuclear power : a non-solution
The benign demographic transition
Making room for human will
Major default positions of human biology
The global pillage : consequences of unmanaged commons
The double C - Double P game
Birth control versus population control
Population control : natural versus human
The necessity of immigration control
Recapitulation and a look ahead.