The skeptical environmentalist: easuring the real state of the world
Language: Publication details: Cambrige : Cambridge University Press, 2002Description: 515pISBN: 0521010683Subject(s): Environmental protection | Environment, conservation, renewable energy, waste management | Global environmental change | Pollution | Human ecologyGenre/Form: Environmental protection DDC classification: 363.7 | 333.72| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book - Standard loan | Dundonald House Library | 333.72 LOM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 159021 |
Part I the litany: things are getting better; why do we hear so much bad news?. Part II Human welfare: measuring human welfare; life expectancy and health; food and hunger; is inflation adjusted GNP a reasonable measure of wealth?; prosperity. Part III Can human prosperity continue?: borrowed time?; food; forests - are we losing them?; energy; non-energy resources; water; conclusion. Part IV Pollution: air pollution; acid rain and forest death; indoor air pollution; allergies and asthma; water; waste; conclusion. Part V Tomorrow's problems: our chemical fears; biodiversity; the greenhouse effect; the ozone hole. Part VI Real state of the world.
This text challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organizations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence.
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