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The Ultimate Resource 2 /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1998, 1996.
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| Edición: | Rev. ed. / |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. TOWARD OUR BEAUTIFUL RESOURCE FUTURE: The amazing theory of raw-material scarcity
- Why are material-technical resource forecasts so often wrong?
- Can the supply of natural resources, especially energy, really be infinite? Yes!
- The grand theory
- Famine 1995? or 2025? or 1975?
- What are the limits on food production?
- The worldwide food situation now: shortage crises, glut crises, and government
- Are we losing ground?
- Two bogeymen: urban sprawl and soil erosion
- Water, wood, wetlands--and what next?
- When will we run out of oil? Never!
- Today's energy issues
- Nuclear power: tomorrow's greatest energy opportunity
- A dying planet? how the media have scared the public
- The peculiar theory of pollution
- Whither the history of pollution?
- Pollution today: specific trends & issues
- Bad environmental and resource scares
- Will our consumer wastes bury us?
- Should we conserve resources for others' sakes? What kinds of resources need conservation?
- Coercive recycling, forced conservation, and free-market alternatives.
- II. POPULATION GROWTH'S EFFECT UPON OUR RESOURCES AND LIVING STANDARDS: Standing room only? the demographic facts
- What will future population growth be?
- Do humans breed like flies? or like Norwegian rats?
- Population growth and the stock of capital
- Population's effects on technology and productivity
- Economies of scope and education
- Population growth, natural resources, and future generations
- Population growth and land
- Are people an environmental pollution?
- Are humans causing species holocaust?
- A greater population does not damage health, or psychological and social well-being
- The big economic picture: population growth and living standards in MDCs
- LDCs
- III. BEYOND THE DATA: How the comparisons people make affect their beliefs about whether things are getting better or worse
- The rhetoric of population control: does the end justify the means?
- The reasoning behind the rhetoric
- Ultimately, what are your values?
- The key values.