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Economic
Thinking about the Environment
Notes
from founder of Greenpeace (November, 2004)
Profiles
of private sector conservation projects (Center
for Private Conservation)
Trade,
Labor and the Environment: How Blue and Green Sanctions
Threaten
Higher Standards by Daniel T. Griswold
(Cato Trade Policy Analysis No. 15 August 2, 2001)
Economic
Growth and the State of Humanity
(PERC Policy Series)
Cooler
heads on CO2 and global warming (link to CEI Projects page)
Essays
on the ethics of environmental stewardship from the Acton
Institute for Religion and Liberty
Books on Environment, Development, Business
Global
Greens: Inside the International Environmental Establishment by James
M. Sheehan.
Chapter Summary, Earth Report
2000, Chapter
1, "The Progress Explosion:
Permanently Escaping the Malthusian Trap."
Excerpt: "Recent developments
in economic theory, called New Growth Theory, have shed considerable
light on how humanity has avoided the Malthusian trap. The
wellsprings of economic growth are new ideas. People actually
improve their lives not through simply using more physical
resources, like land, timber, or oil, but by discovering better
ways of doing things and novel inventions. Humanity cannot
deplete the supply of new ideas, designs, and recipes."
A
Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism
by Gregg Easterbrook
The
Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the
World by Bjorn
Lomborg (Link to Amazon, due Sept. 2001)
More articles
From The Economist...
Environmentalists tend to believe
that, ecologically speaking, things are getting worse and
worse. Bjorn Lomborg, once deep green himself, argues that
they are wrong in almost every particular... (Click
here for full story.)
The New York Times ran a similar
story on Lomborg, but only the abstract is now available free
online. (Click
here for abstract.)
The
Economics of Renewable Energy
Who Is Destroying the World's
Forests?
Market-Based
Environmental Organizations
PERC
Alaska
oil fields and caribou by Matthew
Cronin, Ph.D.
Texas
World! Click for link to Texasworld article on technology
and population issues.
Economist
Julian Simon is a great resource for high school speech and
debate students interested in environmental issues. Simon
is optimistic about most environmental issues (though pessimistic
about the ability of the media to communicate fairly the scientific
issues that surround environmental controversies.
Click here for a link to Julian Simon pages that are available
online.
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www.EconomicThinking.org
Workshops, study guides,
books, and videos:
Tools for economic education
EconomicThinking, a program
of E Pluribus Unum Films
2247 Fifteenth West, Seattle, Washington 98119
Conrad Denke, President -- Gregory Rehmke, Program Director
GRehmke@aolcom
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