| Summary: | Preface -- Introduction: environmental issues: the never-ending debate -- Pt. 1. Philosophy and politics -- Issue 1. Should a price be put on the goods and services provided by the world's ecosystems? -- Yes / Janet N. Abramovitz, from "Putting a value on nature's 'free' services," World Watch (January/February 1998) -- No / Marino Gatto and Giulio A. De Leo, from "Pricing biodiversity and ecosystem services: the never-ending story," BioScience (April 2000) - - Issue 2. Is biodiversity overprotected? -- Yes / David N. Laband, from "Regulating biodiversity: tragedy in the political commons," Ideas on Liberty (September 2001) -- No / E.O. Wilson, from "Why biodiversity matters," interview by Kris Christen, OECD Observer (Summer 2001) -- Issue 3. Are environmental regulations too restrictive? -- Yes / Peter W. Huber, from "Saving the environment from the environmentalists," Commentary (April 1998) -- No / Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, from "Brownlash: the new environmental anti-science," The Humanist (November/December 1996) -- Issue 4. Should environmental policy attempt to cure environmental racism? -- Yes / Robert D. Bullard, from "Dismantling environmental racism in the USA," Local Environment (vol. 4, no. I, 1999) -- No / David Friedman, from "The 'environmental racism' hoax," The American Enterprise (November/December 1998) -- Issue 5. Is the precautionary principle a sound basis for international policy? -- Yes / Paul L. Stein, from "Are decision-makers too cautious with the precautionary principle?" Paper delivered at the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales Annual Conference (October 14 &: 15, 1999) -- No / Henry I. Miller and Gregory Conko, from "The perils of precaution," Policy Review (June & July 2001) -- Issue 6. Do environmentalists overstate their case? -- Yes / Ronald Bailey, from "Debunking green myths," Reason (February 2002) -- No / David Pimentel, from "Skeptical of the skeptical environmentalist," Skeptic (vol. 9, no. 2, 2002) -- Pt. 2. Environmental impacts -- Issue 7. Should the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge be opened to oil drilling? -- Yes / Dwight R. Lee, from "To drill or not to drill: let the environmentalists decide," The Independent Review (Fall 2001) -- No / Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, from "Fool's gold in Alaska," Foreign Affairs (July/August 2001) -- Issue 8. Should DDT be banned worldwide? -- Yes / Anne Platt McGinn, from "Malaria, mosquitoes, and DOT," World Watch (May/June 2002) -- No / Roger Bate, from "A case of the DOTs," National Review (May 14, 2001) -- Issue 9. Is genetic engineering an environmentally sound way to increase food production? -- Yes / Royal Society of London et al., from "Transgenic plants and world agriculture," A report prepared under the auspices of the Royal Society of London, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy, the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and the Third World Academy of Sciences (July 2000) -- No / Brian Halwei, from "The emperor's new crops," World Watch July/August 1999) -- Issue 10. Do environmental hormone mimics pose a potentially serious health threat? Yes / Sheldon Krimsky, from "Hormone disruptors: a clue to understanding the environmental causes of disease," Environment (June 2001) -- No / Stephen H. Safe, from "Environmental and dietary estrogens and human health: is there a problem?" Environmental Health Perspectives (April 1995) -- Issue 11. Is the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to tighten air quality standards for ozone and particulates justified? -- Yes / Carol M. Browner, from Statement Before the Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property and Nuclear Safety, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate (February 12, 1997) -- No / Daniel B. Menzel, from Statement Before the Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property and Nuclear Safety, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate (February 5, 1997) -- Issue 12. Do human activities threaten to change the global climate? -- Yes / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, from "Climate change 2001: the scientific basis," A report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2001) -- No / Kevin A. Shapiro, from "Too darn hot?" Commentary (June 2001) -- Pt. 3. Disposing of wastes -- Issue 13. Hazardous waste: should the "polluter pays" provision of Superfund be weakened? -- Yes / Bernard J. Reilly, from "Stop Superfund waste," Issues in Science and Technology (Spring 1993) -- No / Ted Williams, from "The sabotage of Superfund," Audubon (July/August 1993) -- Issue 14. Municipal waste: is recycling an environmentally and economically sound waste management strategy? -- Yes / Richard A. Denison and John F. Ruston, from "Recycling is not garbage," Technology Review (October 1997) -- No / Chris Hendrickson, Lester Lave, and Francis McMichael, from "Time to dump recycling?" Issues in Science and Technology (Spring 1995) -- Issue 15. Nuclear waste: should the United States continue to focus plans for permanent nuclear waste disposal exclusively at Yucca Mountain? -- Yes / Spencer Abraham, from Recommendation by the Secretary of Energy regarding the suitability of the Yucca Mountain site for a repository under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (February 2002) -- No / Jon Christensen, from "Nuclear roulette," Mother Jones (September/October 2001) -- Pt. 4. Potential solutions -- Issue 16. Is limiting population growth a key factor in protecting the global environment? -- Yes / Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, from "The population explosion: why we should care and what we should do about it," Environmental Law (vol. 27, no. 4, 1997) -- No / Stephen Moore, from "Body count," National Review (October 25, 1999) -- Issue 17. Will pollution rights trading effectively control environmental problems? -- Yes / Charles W. Schmidt, from "The market for pollution," Environmental Health Perspectives (August 2001) -- No / Brian Tokar, from "Trading away the earth: pollution credits and the perils of 'free market environmentalism,' " Dollars & Sense (March/April 1996) -- Issue 18. Will voluntary action by industry reduce the need for future environmental regulation? -- Yes / Raymond J. Patchak and William R. Smith, from "ISO 14000 Perspective: So long! Command and control.hello!" ISO 14000 (December 1998) -- No / Linda Greer and Christopher van Loben Sels, from "When pollution prevention meets the bottom line," Environmental Science and Technology (vol. 31, no. 9, 1997) -- Issue 19. Is sustainable development compatible with human welfare? -- Yes / Dinah M. Payne and Cecily A. Raiborn, from "Sustainable development: the ethics support the economics," Journal of Business Ethics (July 2001) -- No / Ronald Bailey, from "Wilting greens," Reason (December 2002) -- Contributors -- Index
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