The True State of the Planet

Bailey, Ronald (editor)

ISBN 10: 0028740106 / ISBN 13: 9780028740102

Published by Free Press, (1995), New York, 1995

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Smudging on small area of fore-edges, one leaf corner turned down, else Very Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The True State of the Planet
• Publisher: Free Press, (1995), New York
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0028740106
• ISBN 13: 9780028740102
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: B & W Photographs
• Edition: First Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social Studies
  • Science

About this title

Synopsis

In the 25 years since the first Earth Day in 1970, the environmental movement has spawned a new generation of scientists asking vital questions about the true state and fate of the planet. But, surprisingly, some of their answers -- and even the questions themselves -- contradict the movement's deepest beliefs. Why are reserves of oil, precious metals, and other natural resources more plentiful than ever before? Why has the population growth of the twentieth century brought rising standards of living for nearly all? In The True State of the Planet ten premier scholars shatter the myths of overpopulation, food, global warming, and pesticides, while redirecting environmentalists' concerns to the far more urgent problems of fisheries, fresh water, and third-world pollution -- and the political causes behind them.

About the Author

Ronald Bailey is producer of the national weekly public television series Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg and author of Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse.