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The ultimate resource 2 /
Arguing that the ultimate resource is the human imagination coupled to the human spirit, Julian Simon led a vigorous challenge to conventional beliefs about scarcity of energy and natural resources, pollution of the environment, the effects of immigration, and the "perils of overpopulation.&quo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1996.
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| Edición: | [Rev. ed.]. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. What Are the Real Population and Resource Problems?
- 1. The Amazing Theory of Raw-Material Scarcity
- 2. Why Are Material-Technical Resource Forecasts So Often Wrong?
- 3. Can the Supply of Natural Resources
- Especially Energy
- Really Be Infinite? Yes!
- 4. The Grand Theory
- 5. Famine 1995? or 2025? or 1975?
- 6. What Are the Limits on Food Production?
- 7. The Worldwide Food Situation Now: Shortage Crises, Glut Crises, and Government
- 8. Are We Losing Ground?
- 9. Two Bogeymen: "Urban Sprawl" and Soil Erosion
- 10. Water, Wood, Wetlands
- and What Next?
- 11. When Will We Run Out of Oil? Never!
- 12. Today's Energy Issues
- 13. Nuclear Power: Tomorrow's Greatest Energy Opportunity
- 14. A Dying Planet? How the Media Have Scared the Public
- 15. The Peculiar Theory of Pollution
- 16. Whither the History of Pollution?
- 17. Pollution Today: Specific Trends and Issues
- 18. Bad Environmental and Resource Scares
- 19. Will Our Consumer Wastes Bury Us?