True State of the Planet

By: Ronald Bailey

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Paperback | 1 May 1995

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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 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.

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Non-Fiction Engineering & Technology Environmental Science Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning The Environment Conservation of The Environment Science Science in General Popular Science

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Prologue: Environmentalism for the Twenty-first Century	p. 1
Population, Food, and Income: Global Trends in the Twentieth Century	p. 7
Saving the Planet with Pesticides: Increasing Food Supplies While Preserving the Earth's Biodiversity	p. 49
Global Warming: Messy Models Decent Data, and Pointless Policy	p. 83
The Coming Age of Abundance	p. 109
The Causes and Prevention of Cancer: The Role of Environment	p. 141
Forests: Conflicting Signals	p. 177
Conserving Biodiversity: Resources for Our Future	p. 211
Water Options for the Blue Planet	p. 267
Rescuing the Oceans	p. 295
Richer Is Cleaner: Long-Term Trends in Global Air Quality	p. 339
Epilogue: Reappraising Humanity's Challenges, Humanity's Opportunities	p. 379
Benchmarks: The Ecological and Economic Trends That Are Shaping the Natural Environment and Human Societies	p. 393
Appendix: Limits of Statistical Certainty - The Case of Population, Food, and Income	p. 455
Index	p. 460
Acknowledgments	p. 472
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