A Chilling Tale
December 9, 2004
The True State Of The Planet
Ten Of The World's Premier Environmental Researchers In A Major Challenge To The Environmental Movement
The True State of the Planet: Ten of the World's Premier Environmental Researchers in a Major Challenge to the Environmental Movement
Date: 1995
Edited by: Ronald Bailey
Published by: Free Press
In the 25 years since the first Earth Day in 1970, the environmental movement has spawned a new generation of scientists asking vital questions about the true state and fate of the planet. But, surprisingly, some of their answers--and even the questions themselves--contradict the movement's deepest beliefs. Why are the reserves of oil, precious metals, and other natural resources more plentiful than ever before? Why has the population growth of the twentieth century brought rising standards of living for nearly all? In The True State of the Planet ten premier scholars shatter the myths of overpopulation, food, global warming, and pesticides, while redirecting environmentalists' concerns to the far more urgent problems of fisheries, fresh water, and third-world pollution--and the political causes behind them.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1, by Nicholas Eberstadt
Population, Food, and Income: Global Trends in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 2, by Dennis Avery
Saving the Planet with Pesticides: Increasing Food Supplies While Preserving the Earth's Biodiversity
Chapter 3, by Robert C. Balling, Jr.
Global Warming: Messy Models, Decent Data, and Pointless Policy
Chapter 4, by Stephen Moore
The Coming Age of Abundance
Chapter 5, by Bruce N. Ames and Lois Swirsky Gold
The Causes and Prevention of Cancer: The Role of Environment
Chapter 6, by Roger A. Sedjo
Forests: Conflicting Signals
Chapter 7, by Stephen R. Edwards
Conserving Biodiversity: Resources for Our Future
Chapter 8, by Terry L. Anderson
Water Options for the Blue Planet
Chapter 9, by Kent Jeffreys
Rescuing the Oceans
Chapter 10, by Indur M. Goklany
Richer is Cleaner: Long Term Trends in Global Air Quality
