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| Analytical Contents | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments for the First Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments for the Second Edition | |
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| Introduction What Are the Real Population and Resource Problems? | |
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| The Amazing Theory of Raw-Material Scarcity | |
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| Why Are Material-Technical Resource Forecasts So Often Wrong? | |
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| Can the Supply of Natural Resources - Especially Energy - Really Be Infinite? Yes! | |
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| The Grand Theory | |
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| Famine 1995? or 2025? or 1975? | |
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| What Are the Limits on Food Production? | |
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| The Worldwide Food Situation Now: Shortage Crises, Glut Crises, and Government | |
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| Are We Losing Ground? | |
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| Two Bogeymen: "Urban Sprawl" and Soil Erosion | |
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| Water, Wood, Wetlands - and What Next? | |
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| When Will We Run Out of Oil? Never! | |
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| Today's Energy Issues | |
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| Nuclear Power: Tomorrow's Greatest Energy Opportunity | |
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| A Dying Planet? How the Media Have Scared the Public | |
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| The Peculiar Theory of Pollution | |
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| Whither the History of Pollution? | |
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| Pollution Today: Specific Trends and Issues | |
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| Bad Environmental and Resource Scares | |
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| Will Our Consumer Wastes Bury Us? | |
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| Should We Conserve Resources for Others' Sakes? What Kinds of Resources Need Conservation? | |
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| Coercive Recycling, Forced Conservation, and Free-Market Alternatives | |
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| Standing Room Only? The Demographic Facts | |
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| What Will Future Population Growth Be? | |
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| Do Humans Breed Like Flies? Or Like Norwegian Rats? | |
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| Population Growth and the Stock of Capital | |
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| Population's Effects on Technology and Productivity | |
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| Economies of Scope and Education | |
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| Population Growth, Natural Resources, and Future Generations | |
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| Population Growth and Land | |
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| Are People an Environmental Pollution? | |
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| Are Humans Causing Species Holocaust? | |
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| A Greater Population Does Not Damage Health, or Psychological and Social Well-Being | |
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| The Big Economic Picture: Population Growth and Living Standards in MDCs | |
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| The Big Picture II: LDCs | |
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| How the Comparisons People Make Affect Their Beliefs about Whether Things Are Getting Better or Worse | |
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| The Rhetoric of Population Control: Does the End Justify the Means? | |
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| The Reasoning behind the Rhetoric | |
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| Ultimately - What Are Your Values? | |
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| The Key Values | |
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| Conclusion The Ultimate Resource | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| My Critics and I | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |