The Ultimate Resource 2 /

The Ultimate Resource 2 / / Julian Lincoln Simon.

Arguing that the ultimate resource is the human imagination coupled to the human spirit, Julian Simon led a vigorous challenge to conventional beliefs about scarcity of energy and natural resources, pollution of the environment, the effects of immigration, and the "perils of overpopulation.&quo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Simon, Julian Lincoln,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1996
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (778 p.) :; 5 halftones 143 line drawings 13 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Analytical Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments for the First Fdition
  • Acknowledgments for the Second Edition
  • Introduction. What Are the Real Population and Resource Problems?
  • PART ONE: TOWARD OUR BEAUTIFUL RESOURCE FUTURE
  • 1. The Amazing Theory of Raw-Material Scarcity
  • 2. Why Are Material-Technical Resource Forecasts So Often Wrong?
  • 3. Can the Supply of Natural Resources-Especially Energy- Really Be Infinite? Yes!
  • 4. The Grand Theory
  • 5. Famine 1995? or 2025? or 1975?
  • 6. What Are the Limits on Food Production?
  • 7. The Worldwide Food Situation Now: Shortage Crises, Glut Crises, and Government
  • 8. Are We Losing Ground?
  • 9. Two Bogeymen: "Urban Sprawl" and Soil Erosion
  • 10. Water, Wood, Wetlands-and What Next?
  • 11. When Will We Run Out of Oil? Never!
  • 12. Todays Energy Issues
  • 13. Nuclear Power: Tomorrows Greatest Energy Opportunity
  • 14. A Dying Planet? How the Media Have Scared the Public
  • 15. The Peculiar Theory of Pollution
  • 16. Whither the History of Pollution?
  • 17. Pollution Today: Specific Trends and Issues
  • 18. Bad Environmental and Resource Scares
  • 19. Will Our Consumer Wastes Bury Us?
  • 20. Should We Conserve Resources for Others' Sakes? What Kinds of Resources Need Conservation?
  • 21. Coercive Recycling, Forced Conservation, and Free-Market Alternatives
  • PART TWO: POPULATION GROWTH'S EFFECT UPON OUR RESOURCES AND LIVING STANDARD
  • 22. Standing Room Only? The Demographic Facts
  • 23. What Will Future Population Growth Be?
  • 24. Do Humans Breed Like Flies? Or Like Norwegian Rats?
  • 25. Population Growth and the Stock of Capital
  • 26. Population's Effects on Technology and Productivity
  • 27. Economies of Scope and Education
  • 28. Population Growth, Natural Resources, and Future Generations
  • 29. Population Growth and Land
  • 30. Are People an Environmental Pollution?
  • 31. Are Humans Causing Species Holocaust?
  • 32. A Greater Population Does Not Damage Health, or Psychological and Social Weil-Being
  • 33. The Big Economic Picture: Population Growth and Living Standards in MDCs
  • 34. The Big Picture II: LD
  • PART THREE: BEYOND THE DATA
  • 35. How the Comparisons People Make Affect Their Beliefs about Whether Things Are Getting Better or Worse
  • 36. The Rhetoric of Population Control: Does the End Justify the Means?
  • 37. The Reasoning behind the Rhetoric
  • 38. Ultimately-What Are Your Values?
  • 39. The Key Values
  • Conclusion. The Ultimate Resource
  • Epilogue. My Critics and I
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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