The skeptical environmentalist : measuring the real state of the world /
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| Author / Creator: | Lomborg, Bjørn, 1965- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. |
| Description: | xxiii, 515 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4498667 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. The Litany
- 1. Things are getting better
- 2. Why do we hear so much bad news?
- Part II. Human Welfare
- 3. Measuring human welfare
- 4. Life expectancy and health
- 5. Food and hunger
- 6. Prosperity
- 7. Conclusion
- Part III. Can Human Prosperity Continue?
- 8. Are we living on borrowed time?
- 9. Will we have enough food
- 10. Forests - are we losing them?
- 11. Energy
- 12. Non-energy resources
- 13. Water
- 14. Conclusion
- Part IV. Pollution
- 15. Air pollution
- 16. Acid rain and forest death
- 17. Indoor air pollution
- 18. Allergies and asthma
- 19. Water pollution
- 20. Waste: running out of space?
- 21. Conclusion
- Part V. TomorrowâÇÖs Problems
- 22. Our chemical fears
- 23. Biodiversity
- 24. Global warming
- Part VI. The Real State of the World
- 25. Predicament or progress?
- Notes
- Bibliography
