{"product_id":"maybe-one-a-case-for-smaller-families-9780452280922","title":"Maybe One: A Case for Smaller Families","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn light of climate change warnings, more families are looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint and help prevent disasters like rising sea levels, wildfires, and increasing global temperatures. In this compelling book, the author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFalter \u003c\/i\u003eargues for a solution with sociological, population, and environmental benefits: having fewer children.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe earth is becoming dangerously overcrowded, and if more families chose to have only one child, it would make a crucial difference toward ensuring a healthy future for ourselves and our planet for generations to come. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But the environment alone may not persuade most people to consider having just one child, as 80% of Americans have siblings. Powerful stereotypes about only children--that they're spoiled, selfish, or maladjusted in some way--still persist. McKibben, the proud father of an only child himself, debunks these myths, citing research about the many emotional and intellectual strengths only children possess, including higher test scores, higher levels of achievement in school, and greater development of positive personality traits like maturity and self-control. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once a powerful personal argument and an accessible exploration of what overpopulation could mean to human life and environmental sustainability, \u003ci\u003eMaybe One \u003c\/i\u003eis a provocative yet well-reasoned opening to what has become important and lasting debate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bill McKibben\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Plume Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.29w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780452280922\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/1999 pg. 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill McKibben\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than a dozen books, including \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDeep Economy\u003c\/i\u003e. A former staff writer for the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, he writes often for \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. He is the founder of the environmental organizations Step It Up and 350.org, a global warming awareness campaign that in October 2009 coordinated what CNN called \"the most widespread day of political action in the planet's history.\" He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and their daughter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plume Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43750500171891,"sku":"9.78045E+12","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_f36d746a-a07b-40eb-baa1-6f2f1f2f2db0.jpg?v=1756464503","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/maybe-one-a-case-for-smaller-families-9780452280922","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}