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ENVIRONMENT
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.)
Notes on the science of greenhouse warming
The
Economics of Renewable Energy
Who Is Destroying the World's
Forests?
Market-Based Environmental Organizations
Center for Private Conservation
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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Resources & Recycling Study Guide. Click to view in Adobe Acrobat (16 pages)
Census and Sensibility: Population and Resources
A transcript and video from population and resources debate (Hoover Institution Uncommon Knowledge).