Scarcity or abundance?: a debate on the environment
Never before have questions about our relationship with the environment loomed so large in human affairs. Is the world at an historical threshold, where we risk dooming ourselves and our planet if we don't change the way we exploit the Earth's resources? Or are environmentalists being alar...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Never before have questions about our relationship with the environment loomed so large in human affairs. Is the world at an historical threshold, where we risk dooming ourselves and our planet if we don't change the way we exploit the Earth's resources? Or are environmentalists being alarmists, underestimating nature's resilience and humanity's adaptiveness? Is species extinction something we really need to worry about? Can we find new supplies or substitutes for scarce resources Norman Myers, an award-winning environmentalist, and Julian Simon, a University of Maryland economist and outspoken skeptic on environmentalism, are at polar opposites on these questions. This book is a transcript of their provocative exchange in a debate held at Columbia University in October 1992. The authors also provide position statements and replies that let readers judge for themselves whose arguments are more persuasive. This book makes a brief, stimulating guide to a most important issue |
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List of Tables and Figures vi i
Editors Note xi
Foreword by John Ruggie xi i i
Preface by Julian Simon xv
Preface by Norman Myers xvii
Pre Debate Statement: JULIAN SIMON
1 Introduction 5
2 Population Growth Is Not Bad for Humanity 23
3 The Statistical Flummery About Species Loss 35
4 The Urban Sprawl and Soil Erosion Scam 44
5 Atmospheric Issues 55
6 Final Matters 64
Pre Debate Statement: NORMAN MYERS
1 Introduction 69
2 Biodiversity 72
vi Contents
3 The Population Factor 83
4 The Policy Prospect 96
5 Our Changing Relationship to Nature 102
6 A Great Creative Challenge 106
THE DEBATE 111
Post Debate Statement: norman myers 165
Post Debate Statement: Julian simon 195
References: Julian Simon 211
Norman Myers 215
Bibliography: Julian Simon 234
Further Reading: Norman Myers 237
Index 243
List of Tables and Figures
JULIAN SIMON page(i)
Figure 1 1 Black and White Infant Mortality Rate 6, 114
Figure 1 2 Life Expectancy Rates, China and France 7, 116
Figure 1 3 Life Expectancy Rates: Female Expectation
of Life at Birth 8, 117
Figure 1 4 Agricultural Labor Force in Great Britain,
1600 present 9
Figure l 5a Copper Prices Indexed by Wages 10,119
Figure l 5b Copper Prices Indexed by CPI 11, 120
Figure 1 6a Wheat Prices Indexed by Wages 12
Figure l 6b Wheat Prices Indexed by CPI 13
Figure 1 7 Index of World Food Production, 1951 1990 14
Figure l 8a National Ambient Concentrations of
Pollutants 16
Figure l 8b Emissions of Major Air Pollutants in the
United States, 1940 1990 17
Figure 1 Sc Air Quality Trends in Major Urban Areas,
1973 1989 18
Figure l 8d Phosphorus Loadings to the Great Lakes,
1976 1989 19
viii List of Tables and Figures Figure l 8e DDT Levels in the Great Lakes, 1965 1983 20
Figure l 8f PCB Levels in the Great Lakes, 1972 1990 21
Figure l 8g Dieldrin Levels in the Great Lakes, 1969
1990 22
Table 2 1 Demographic and Economic Growth:
Selected Countries, 1950 83 27 31
Figure 3 1 Myers Lovejoy Estimates of Species
Extinction and Their Extrapolations to the
Year 2000 39, 122
Table 4 1 Major Uses of Land, United States, 1987 45
Table 4 2 Major Uses of Land, 48 Contiguous States,
1900 87 47
Table 4 3 Estimated Rates of Urbanization 50
Figure 4 1 Measures of Urban Area, 1958 1987 51
Figure 4 2 Trends in Soil Erosion in the United States,
1934 present 54
Figure 5 1 Total Atmospheric Ozone, 1926 1980, as
Observed in Arosa, Switzerland 62
Figure 6 Estimated Decadal Mean Smoke and Sul¬
phur Dioxide Concentrations in London,
1585 1940 152
Figure 7 Smoke Level and Mean Hours of Winter Sun¬
shine in London, 1920 1980 153
Figure 1 Respiratory Tuberculosis: Standardized
Death Rates, 1861 1964 207
Figure 2 Estimated Crude Oil Reserves 208
Figure3 Crude Oil: Years of Reserves 208
Figure 4 Real Gasoline Prices, 1920 1989 209
Figures 5a, b Female Age Specific Death Rates for
Sweden, 1751 1980 209, 210
NORMAN MYERS page
Table 1 World Population Projections, 1990 2100 168
Figure la Momentum of Population Growth 169
Figure lb Slowing Population Growth by Meeting
Family Planning Needs, 1950 2100 170
Table 2 World Population and Economic Growth by
Decade, 1950 1992 171
List of Tables and Figures ix
Table3 People in Absolute Poverty, 1990 172
Figure2 Global Economic Disparities, 1989 173
Figure 3 Decrease in Per Capita Fresh Water in Devel¬
oping Regions, 1950 2025 174
Figure4 Water Supplies: 1990 and 2025 175
Table 4 Fuelwood Shortages, 1980 2000 176
Table5 World Grain Availability, 1950 1992 177
Figure 5 Cropland Supplies, 1989 and 2025 178
Table 6 The Economic Cost of Environmental
Damage 186
Figure 6 Per Capita GNP in Comparison with Per
Capita Sustainable Economic Welfare in
the United States, 1950 1986 187
Table 7 Selected Environmental Programs in Devel¬
oping Countries: Estimated Costs and Long
Term Benefits 190 91
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