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| Preface | |
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| Correlation Guide | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Environmental Philosophy | |
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| Is the Precautionary Principle a Sound Approach to Risk Analysis? | |
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| Yes: from "The Rise of the Precautionary Principle: A Social Movement Gathers Strength," Multinational Monitor (September 2004) | |
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| No: from "The Precautionary Principle: Is It a Threat to Toxicological Science?" International Journal of Toxicology (January/February 2006) | |
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| Is Sustainable Development Compatible with Human Welfare? | |
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| Yes: from "The European Dream: Building Sustainable Development in a Globally Connected World," E Magazine (March/April 2005) | |
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| No: from "Wilting Greens," Reason (December 2002) | |
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| Should a Price Be Put on the Goods and Services Provided by the World's Ecosystems? | |
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| Yes: from "The Economic Value of Ecological Services Provided by Insects," BioScience (April 2006) | |
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| No: from "Pricing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: The Never-Ending Story," BioScience (April 2000) | |
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| Principles Versus Politics | |
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| Should the Endangered Species Act Be Strengthened? | |
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| Yes: from "Testimony before the Oversight Hearing on the Endangered Species Act," U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (May 19, 2005) | |
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| No: from "Testimony before the Oversight Hearing on the Endangered Species Act," U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (May 19, 2005) | |
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| Should the EPA Be Doing More to Fight Environmental Injustice? | |
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| Yes: from "Environmental Justice Programs," Statement before the Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (July 25, 2007) | |
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| No: from "Environmental Justice Programs," Statement before the Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (July 25, 2007) | |
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| Can Pollution Rights Trading Effectively Control Environmental Problems? | |
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| Yes: from "Carbon Trading," Electric Perspectives (September/October 2005) | |
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| No: from "Trading Away the Earth: Pollution Credits and the Perils of 'Free Market Environmentalism,'" Dollars & Sense (March/April 1996) | |
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| Energy Issues | |
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| Should the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Be Opened to Oil Drilling? | |
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| Yes: from "To Drill or Not to Drill," The Independent Review (Fall 2001) | |
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| No: from Senate Energy Committee (October 24, 2005) | |
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| Is Global Warming Skepticism Just Smoke and Mirrors? | |
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| Yes: from "Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco's Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science," Union of Concerned Scientists (January 2007) | |
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| No: from "Liberal 'Scientists' Lead Jihad against Global-Warming Skeptics," Human Events (May 8, 2007) | |
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| Is Wind Power Green? | |
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| Yes: from "Whither Wind?" Orion (September/October 2006) | |
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| No: from "The Wayward Wind?," speech given in the township of Perry, near Silver Lake, Wyoming County, New York (June 19, 2006) | |
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| Should Cars Be More Efficient? | |
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| Yes: from "CAFE Standards," Testimony before Committee on Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation (March 6, 2007) | |
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| No: from "Why the Government's CAFE Standards for Fuel Efficiency Should Be Repealed, Not Increased," The Heritage Foundation Backgrounder (July 11, 2001) | |
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| Do Biofuels Enhance Energy Security? | |
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| Yes: from "Testimony before Committee on Senate Energy and Natural Resources" (April 12, 2007) | |
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| No: from "Biofuels-Facts and Fiction," The Ecologist (March 2007) | |
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| Is It Time to Revive Nuclear Power? | |
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| Yes: from "Testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, Hearing on the Department of Energy's Nuclear Power 2010 Program" (April 26, 2005) | |
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| No: from "Brave Nuclear World, Part II" World Watch (July/August 2006) | |
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| Food and Population | |
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| Do Falling Birthrates Pose a Threat to Human Welfare? | |
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| Yes: from "Birth Dearth," Newsweek (September 27, 2004) | |
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| No: from "The Fewer the Better," New Statesman (November 8, 2004) | |
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| Is Genetic Engineering the Answer to Hunger? | |
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| Yes: from "Is Genetic Engineering the Answer to Hunger?" America (February 21, 2005) | |
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| No: from "Genetic Engineering Is Not the Answer," America (May 2, 2005) | |
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| Is a Large-Scale Shift to Organic Farming the Best Way to Increase World Food Supply? | |
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| Yes: from "Can Organic Farming Feed Us All?" World Watch (May/June 2006) | |
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| No: from "The Organic Myth: A Food Movement Makes a Pest of Itself," National Review (February 9, 2004) | |
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| Toxic Chemicals | |
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| Should DDT Be Banned Worldwide? | |
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| Yes: from "Malaria, Mosquitoes, and DDT," World Watch (May/June 2002) | |
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| No: from "Statement before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, Hearing on the Role of Science in Environmental Policy-Making" (September 28, 2005) | |
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| Do Environmental Hormone Mimics Pose a Potentially Serious Health Threat? | |
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| Yes: from "The Hazards of Environmental Estrogens," The World & I (October 2001) | |
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| No: from "Endocrine Disrupters, Politics, Pesticides, the Cost of Food and Health," Daily Commentary (December 15, 1997) | |
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| Is the Superfund Program Successfully Protecting Human Health from Hazardous Materials? | |
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| Yes: from "Superfund Matures Gracefully," Issues in Science & Technology (Summer 2003) | |
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| No: from "Not in Their Backyard," Mother Jones (May/June 2007) | |
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| Should the United States Reprocess Spent Nuclear Fuel? | |
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| Yes: from "Statement before the House Committee on Science, Energy Subcommittee, Hearing on Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing," United States Senate (June 16, 2005) | |
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| No: from "The Case against a Near-Term Decision to Reprocess Spent Nuclear Fuel in the United States," United States Senate (June 16, 2005) | |
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| Is Carbon Capture Technology Ready to Limit Carbon Emissions? | |
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| Yes: from "Carbon Capture and Sequestration," Testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality (March 6, 2007) | |
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| No: from "Carbon Capture & Storage: Blue-Sky Technology or Just Blowing Smoke?" Environmental Health Perspectives (November 2007) | |
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| Should North America's Landscape Be Restored to Its Pre-Human State? | |
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| Yes: from "Restoring America's Big, Wild Animals," Scientific American (June 2007) | |
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| No: from "Pleistocene Park: Does Re-Wilding North America Represent Sound Conservation for the 21st Century?" Biological Conservation (vol. 132, 2006) | |
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| Contributors | |