The ultimate resource 2 / Julian L. Simon
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- 3016530
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- Author:
- Simon, Julian Lincoln, 1932-
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- [Rev. ed.].
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- Princton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996
- xliii, 734 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0691042691
- 0691003815
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- Analytical Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments for the First Edition Acknowledgments for the Second Edition Introduction. What Are the Real Population and Resource Problems? 3 1 The Amazing Theory of Raw-Material Scarcity 23 2 Why Are Material-Technical Resource Forecasts So Often Wrong? 41 3 Can the Supply of Natural Resources - Especially Energy - Really Be Infinite? Yes! 54 4 The Grand Theory 73 5 Famine 1995? or 2025? or 1975? 84 6 What Are the Limits on Food Production? 97 7 The Worldwide Food Situation Now: Shortage Crises, Glut Crises, and Government 109 8 Are We Losing Ground? 127 9 Two Bogeymen: "Urban Sprawl" and Soil Erosion 139 10 Water, Wood, Wetlands - and What Next? 151 11 When Will We Run Out of Oil? Never! 162 12 Today's Energy Issues 182 13 Nuclear Power: Tomorrow's Greatest Energy Opportunity 203 14 A Dying Planet? How the Media Have Scared the Public 212 15 The Peculiar Theory of Pollution 223 16 Whither the History of Pollution? 233 17 Pollution Today: Specific Trends and Issues 241 18 Bad Environmental and Resource Scares 258 19 Will Our Consumer Wastes Bury Us? 275 20 Should We Conserve Resources for Others' Sakes? What Kinds of Resources Need Conservation? 283 21 Coercive Recycling, Forced Conservation, and Free-Market Alternatives 297 22 Standing Room Only? The Demographic Facts 311 23 What Will Future Population Growth Be? 326 24 Do Humans Breed Like Flies? Or Like Norwegian Rats? 342 25 Population Growth and the Stock of Capital 357 26 Population's Effects on Technology and Productivity 367 27 Economies of Scope and Education 391 28 Population Growth, Natural Resources, and Future Generations 399 29 Population Growth and Land 412 30 Are People an Environmental Pollution? 429 31 Are Humans Causing Species Holocaust? 439 32 A Greater Population Does Not Damage Health, or Psychological and Social Well-Being 459 33 The Big Economic Picture: Population Growth and Living Standards in MDCs 471 34 The Big Picture II: LDCs 491 35 How the Comparisons People Make Affect Their Beliefs about Whether Things Are Getting Better or Worse 513 36 The Rhetoric of Population Control: Does the End Justify the Means? 519 37 The Reasoning behind the Rhetoric 537 38 Ultimately - What Are Your Values? 547 39 The Key Values 557 Conclusion. The Ultimate Resource 578 Epilogue. My Critics and I 593 Notes 617 References 653 Index 691
- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Population, Natural resources, Economic policy.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [653]-690) and index.
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- Ultimate resource two
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