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The skeptical environmentalist : measuring the real state of the world /
Bjorn Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace, challenges widely held beliefs that the global environment is progressively getting worse. Using statistical information from internationally recognized research institutes, Lomborg systematically examines a range of major environmental issues and docume...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Danés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART I: THE LITANY: Things are getting better
- Why do we hear so much bad news?
- PART II: HUMAN WELFARE: Measuring human welfare
- Life expectancy and health
- Food and hunger
- Prosperity
- Conclusion to Part II; Unprecedented human prosperity
- PART III: CAN HUMAN PROSPERITY CONTINUE? : Are we living on borrowed time?
- Will we have enough food?
- Forests: are we losing them?
- Energy
- Non-energy resources
- Water
- Conclusion to part III; Continued prosperity
- PART IV: POLLUTION: DOES IT UNDERCUT HUMAN PROSPERITY? : Air pollution
- Acid rain and forest death
- Indoor air pollution
- Allergies and asthma
- Water pollution
- Waste: running out of space?
- Conclusion to part IV: The pollution burden has diminished
- PART V: TOMORROW'S PROBLEMS: Our chemical fears
- Biodiversity
- Global warming
- PART VI: THE REAL STATE OF THE WORLD: Predicament or progress?