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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Of Greenhouses and Freezers: The Perils of Global Climate Change | |
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| Introduction: Hollywood at Its Best | |
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| The Current Concern Over Global Warming | |
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| The Litany of Disaster | |
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| National Policy Options | |
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| Can International Agreements Cool Off the Greenhouse? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Genetically Modified Organisms: The Complex Difficulties of Frankenfood | |
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| Introduction: A Hungry World | |
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| Law and Order: The Prosecutor's Tale | |
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| The Origins of Genetic Modification of Plants | |
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| The Unexpected Political Backlash | |
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| The Future of GMOs | |
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| Skunked: Crisis in the New England Fisheries | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Too Many Boats Chasing Too Few Fish | |
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| The Captains Courageous: Fishing in New England | |
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| The Russians Are Coming! And the Germans, Poles, Spanish ... | |
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| Present and Future | |
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| The Ingenuity of the Bugs: Combating Resistance to Antibiotics | |
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| Introduction: Thinking Like an Ecosystem | |
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| The Slow Destruction of an Ecosystem | |
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| Down on the Pharm | |
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| Plague Years: AIDS, Tuberculosis, and the Future of Disease | |
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| A Nuclear Solution? | |
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| The Search for Bears | |
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| Oil on the Rocks: The Wreck of the Exxon Valdez | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Reflections on Responsibility | |
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| The Event: Ship Meets Reef | |
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| Prince William Sound: The End of Innocence | |
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| The Response: Studies in Dysfunction | |
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| A Slick of Lawyers over Alaska | |
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| Hazelwood Was Not Alone | |
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| So It Will Never Happen Again | |
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| The Extended Family: The Saga of the Great Apes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Traditional Food of the Indigenous Populations | |
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| The Quarry in the Great Bushmeat Hunt | |
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| Apes in the Wild: The Preservation of Endangered Ecosystems | |
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| Apes in the Laboratory: Utilitarian Benefits and Troubling Claims of Right | |
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| Apes in Court: Should They Have the Rights of Persons? | |
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| Ecotourism and Respect | |
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| Chlorine Sunrise: The Beneficent Possibilities of a Known Poison | |
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| Better Living through Chemistry, Or Maybe Not | |
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| The Classic Environmental Debate | |
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| The Construction of a Sustainable Industry | |
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| Concluding Observation | |
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| Are we the Problem?: Addressing the New Population Dilemma | |
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| Introduction: China-Four Faces of the Population Problem | |
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| Paul Ehrlich's Bomb and the Affluent Society | |
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| The Role of the International Community | |
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| United States Policy: A Footnote | |
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| Fueling the World: What Are the Alternatives for Energy? | |
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| Introduction: 400 Miles on a Tank of Gas | |
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| The Black-Hole Question of Conventional Fuel | |
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| Alternative Fuels: An Overview | |
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| Tides, Geothermals and a Summing Up | |
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| Biological Diversity: Saving the Uniquenesses of the World | |
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| Introduction: The Beginning of the End or Just in Time? | |
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| Why Does Biological Diversity Matter? | |
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| How Serious Is This? Very | |
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| More on the Response, Legislative and Otherwise | |
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| Action to Save Species-What Can We Do? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |