Bill McKibben 
Maybe One [EPUB ebook] 
A Personal and Evironmental Argument for Single Child Families

From the groundbreaking, bestselling author of The End of Nature, a controversial and provocative book arguing that to help the planet we should begin to voluntarily limit our numbers. Bill Mc Kibben’s books and essays on our environment — physical and spiritual — have shaped and spurred debate since The End of Nature was published in 1989. Then, he sounded one of the earliest alarms about global warming; the decade of science since has proved his prescience. Now, in Maybe One, he takes on the most controversial of environmental problems — population. We live in a unique and dangerous time, he asserts, when the planet’s limits are being tested and voluntary reductions in American childbearing could make a crucial difference. The father of a single child himself, Mc Kibben maintains that bringing one, and no more than one, child into this world will hurt neither your family nor our nation — indeed, it can be an optimistic step toward the future. Maybe One is not just an environmental argument but a highly personal and philosophical one. Mc Kibben cites new and extensive research about the developmental strengths of only children; he finds that single kids are not spoiled, weird, selfish, or asocial, but pretty much the same as everyone else. Mc Kibben recognizes that the transition to a stable population size won’t be easy or pain-free but ultimately is inevitable. Maybe One provides the basis for provocative, powerful thought and discussion that will influence our thinking for decades to come.