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Author: John Maddox Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies ISBN: 9780070394285 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 306
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"Are we about to succomb to pollution, starvation, and overcrowding? No according to the author of The Doomsday Syndrome, who convincingly demonstrates that we can make the environment a safe and sane one if we devote more energy to solving our problems and less to trying to convince ourselves the human race is doomed."--back cover.
Author: John Maddox Publisher: MacMillan ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 264
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The author is editor of the scientific journal Nature and discusses all the fashionable topics which bring forth today's "prophets of doom". Without minimising these dangers he warns against the greater dangers of unbridled pessimism and offers us some hope.
Author: John Maddox Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies ISBN: 9780070394285 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 306
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"Are we about to succomb to pollution, starvation, and overcrowding? No according to the author of The Doomsday Syndrome, who convincingly demonstrates that we can make the environment a safe and sane one if we devote more energy to solving our problems and less to trying to convince ourselves the human race is doomed."--back cover.
Author: Robert Jay Lifton Publisher: Nation Books ISBN: 9781560255123 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 228
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No one is better equipped than psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton-a leading scholar of thought control and mass violence- to make sense of the extreme moment. From Hiroshima survivors to Nazi doctors, from Vietnam veterans to the cult that sarin-gassed the Tokyo subways, he has explained to us global apocalyptic urges, the ravages of psychic numbness, and the psychology of the survivor. Now, as al- Qaeda's desire to purify the earth of "evil" meets the unilateral urge to dominate the globe's sole superpower, Lifton believes we have arrived at a remarkably perilous moment. The United States-from its leaders to much of its people-feels itself painfully vulnerable and thinks of itself as a survivor nation. The combination of such feelings roiling through the land over the last year and an administration with unprecedented military power bent on dominating and purifying the earth adds up to an intensely dangerous atmosphere-in fact, a "syndrome." Unfortunately, there is no therapy available for empires-or rather, the only therapy available is self-prescribed. But while Lifton can't be therapist to the earth's last superpower, he can bring together a half century of wisdom and apply it to Superpower Syndrome.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment Publisher: ISBN: Category : Environmental policy Languages : en Pages : 1012
Author: Julian Lincoln Simon Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691261202 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 424
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A lively answer to those who sound alarms about population growth and resource use The Ultimate Resource challenges conventional beliefs about the scarcity of energy and natural resources, the pollution of the environment, and the perils of overpopulation for our standard of living. In this provocative book, Julian Lincoln Simon argues that natural resources are not finite in any meaningful way, and that using such resources now will not slow the rate of future economic growth. In the short run, all resources are limited. A greater use of any resource means pressure on its supply and hence an increased price. In the long run, however, history shows that human creativity overcomes natural obstacles to economic growth and leads to a lower cost and price than before. The ultimate resource, Simon contends, is the human imagination coupled to the human spirit. This timely book will fundamentally change how you think about a host of issues, from immigration and human fertility to forecasts of population change and the use of taxpayer dollars for population control. The Ultimate Resource demonstrates that the primary constraint on our national and world economic growth is our capacity for the creation of new ideas. The more people who can be trained to help solve the problems that confront us, the faster we might remove the obstacles, and the greater the economic inheritance we can bequeath to our descendants.
Author: The Population Knowledge Network Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317479629 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 257
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This reader on the history of demography and historical perspectives on "population" in the twentieth century features a unique collection of primary sources from around the globe, written by scholars, politicians, journalists, and activists. Many of the sources are available in English for the first time. Background information is provided on each source. Together, the sources mirror the circumstances under which scientific knowledge about "population" was produced, how demography evolved as a discipline, and how demographic developments were interpreted and discussed in different political and cultural settings. Readers thereby gain insight into the historical precedents on debates on race, migration, reproduction, natural resources, development and urbanization, the role of statistics in the making of the nation state, and family structures and gender roles, among others. The reader is designed for undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars in the fields of demography and population studies as well as to anyone interested in the history of science and knowledge.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture--Environmental and Consumer Protection Appropriations Publisher: ISBN: Category : United States Languages : en Pages : 1672
Author: Judith A. Layzer Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262018276 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 521
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A detailed analysis of the policy effects of conservatives' decades-long effort to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection.
Author: Joel Jay Kassiola Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317470745 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 248
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The contributors to this volume focus on the political and value issues that, in their shared view, underlie the global environmental crisis facing us today. They argue that only by transforming our dominant values, social institutions and way of living can we avoid ecological disaster.
Author: P. S. Dasgupta Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521297615 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 520
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A book on the economics of exhaustible resources requires no justification. A long book does. The purist will find disquieting our two-asset, constant population model with which we analyse growth possibilities in an economy with exhaustible resources.
Author: John Maddox
Author: John Maddox
Author: John Maddox
Author: Robert Jay Lifton
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment
Author: Julian Lincoln Simon
Author: The Population Knowledge Network
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture--Environmental and Consumer Protection Appropriations
Author: Judith A. Layzer
Author: Joel Jay Kassiola
Author: P. S. Dasgupta