Global warming and other eco-myths : how the environmental movement uses false science to scare us to death / Ronald Bailey, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bailey, Ronald.

Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deep ecology.

Environmentalism.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Roseville, Calif. : Forum, [2002]

Contents:

Introduction: The Rise and Eventual Fall of Ideological Environmentalism / Ronald Bailey xix

Chapter 1 The Global Warming Fiasco / John R. Christy 1

Chapter 2 Feeding a World of 10 Billion People: The Miracle Ahead / Norman E. Borlaug 29

Chapter 3 Population, Resources, and the Quest to "Stabilize Human Population": Myths and Realities / Nicholas Eberstadt 61

Chapter 4 A Century of Environmental Progress and Natural Resource Abundance / Stephen Moore 93

Chapter 5 Sustainable Development Versus Sustained Development / Barun S. Mitra, Rakhi Gupta 121

Chapter 6 Chemical Warfare: Ideological Environmentalism's Quixotic Campaign Against Synthetic Chemicals / Angela Logomasini 149

Chapter 7 The Attack on Plant Biotechnology / Gregory Conko, C. S. Prakash 179

Chapter 8 Avoiding Water Wars / David Riggs 219

Chapter 9 Fueling the Future / John Jennrich 243

Chapter 10 The Precautionary Principle's Challenge to Progress / Jonathan H. Adler 265

Chapter 11 Enclosing the Environmental Commons / Fred Smith 293

Benchmarks: The Global Trends That Are Shaping Our World / Thomas Pearson 319.

Notes:

At head of title: Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-408) and index.

ISBN:

0761536604

OCLC:

49611046