The End of Doom (51 page)

“In truth, ecologists and conservationists”:
Martin Jenkins, “Prospects for Biodiversity,”
Science
302.5648 (November 14, 2003): 1175–1177.
www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/Thoc/Readings/Jenkins_Science2003.pdf
.

Pleistocene Rewilding proposal:
Josh Donlan et al., “Re-Wilding North America.”
Nature,
August 18, 2005, 913–914.
izt.ciens.ucv.ve/ecologia/Archivos/ECO_POB%202010/ECOPO4_2010/Ehrenfeld%202010.pdf
.

“Paleolithic landscape at the Oostvaardersplassen”:
Sagoff, “What Does Environmental Protection Protect?”
Ethics, Policy, & Environment,
16, No. 3, (2013): 239–257.

“ecosystems have no preferences”:
Robert T. Lackey, “Values, Policy, and Ecosystem Health.”
BioScience
51.6 (June 2001): 437–443.
fw.oregonstate.edu/system/files/u2937/2001c%20-%20Values,%20Policy,%20and%20Ecosystem%20Health%20-%20Reprint%20-%20Lackey.pdf
.

“to an agronomist”:
Peter Kareiva et al., “Domesticated Nature: Shaping Landscapes and Ecosystems for Human Welfare.”
Science
316.5833 (June 29, 2007): 1866–1869.
faculty.washington.edu/timbillo/Readings%20and%20documents/ABRIDGED%20READINGS%20for%20PERU/kareiva_etal_2007.pdf
.

“Humans must proactively manage ecosystems”:
Kricher, “Nothing Endures but Change: Ecology's Newly Emerging Paradigm.”
Northeastern Naturalist,
Vol.5, No. 2 (1988), 165–174,
biophilosophy.ca/Teaching/2070papers/kricher.pdf
.

 

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Acemo
ğ
lu, Daron

additive manufacturing

ADHD.
See
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Adler, Jonathan

Africa

biotech crops for

fertility rates in

oil production in

population projections in

rewilding from

water privatization in

aging.
See
life expectancy

agriculture.
See
biotech crops; food production; pesticides

air pollution.
See also
emissions

Akins, James

algae

Allen, Robert P.

aluminum

Anderson, Daniel W.

Annas, George

Antarctica

anthromes

AquaBounty

Arab oil crisis

Arcadia Biosciences

Ascension Island

Attenborough, David

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

Ausubel, Jesse

autonomous vehicles

Bacillus thuringiensis
(Bt)

Bailey, Ronald

cancer concern of

climate change work and view of

energy sector work of

works by

Ban Ki-moon

Bangladesh

Barnosky, Anthony

Barthel, Fabian

Bastiat, Fr
é
d
é
ric

Benbrook, Charles

Berg, Paul

biases, cognitive

biodiversity.
See
extinction; nature

biofuels

biology, synthetic

biotech crops

accidental pollination by

benefits overview

blindness prevention by

developing nations' use of

doomsayers

economic gains from

environmental benefits of

Europe's position on

farmer suicide myth and

fertilizer nutrient efficiency of

future innovations of

India's concern about

introduction of

labeling

lab-grown meat

lawsuit cases by

mutation concerns for

organics and

pesticides and

safety of

superpests and

superweeds and

tolerance of

biotechnology

animals

health

trees

birds

birth control pills

birth defects

Bitman, Joel

Bittman, Mark

blindness

Bloch, Harry

Bonny, Sylvie

Borlaug, Norman

Bouwer, Laurens

bovine somatotropin (BST)

Bowman, Vernon Hugh

BP

Bradley, Raymond

Brazil

Breakthrough Institute report

breast

cancer

development

Bretschger, Lucas

Breyman, Steve

Brin, Sergey

Brodeur, Paul

Brookes, Graham

Brown, James

Brown, Lester

Brown, Patrick

Brundtland, Gro Harlem

Brunk, Gregory

BST.
See
bovine somatotropin

Bt.
See Bacillus thuringiensis

Bulled, Nicola

Burbach, David

Caldeira, Ken

Campbell, Colin

cancer

aging and

Bailey's personal concern for

breast

cell phones and

DDT and

doomsayers

EMFs and

endocrine disruption and

false positives for

incidence decrease in

incidence increase in

leukemia

lung

mortality rate

pancreatic

pharmaceuticals

pollution and

risk factors

saccharin and

synthetic chemicals and

testicular

tobacco smoking and

capitalism, free-market

carbon emissions

budget and projections

capture and storage

climate sensitivity to

consensus on

current

Kyoto Protocol on

natural gas reduction in

nuclear power reduction in

ocean acidification from

renewable energy and

tax

trade

Carson, Rachel

on DDT

modern environmentalism from

on synthetic estrogen

Carter, Jimmy

Cavalieri, Liebe

CBD.
See
Center for Biological Diversity

CDC.
See
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

cell phones

Center for Biological Diversity (CBD)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

CFCs.
See
chlorofluorocarbon

chemicals, synthetic.
See also
DDT; endocrine disrupting chemicals

China

climate negotiations with

neodymium from

sulfur dioxide emissions in

chlorofluorocarbon (CFCs)

Christy, John

Clayton, Blake

Clements, Frederic

climate change

adaptation

climate sensitivity and

developing nations' aid for

Dismal Theorem on

glacial melting

natural disasters and

natural variability and

ocean acidification and

overview

political polarization on

projections

sea-level rise

skeptics

temperature increase

temperature increase hiatus

transient climate response and

climate change costs and benefits

of adaptation

of energy innovation

of mitigation

of natural disaster damage

necessity for

climate change mitigation

by carbon capture and storage

by carbon tax

by carbon trade

costs and benefits

economic growth and

emergency backup plan for

energy consensus and

geoengineering innovation for

intergenerational equity and

by marine cloud whitening

negotiations failed

negotiations future

negotiations promised

by nuclear power

overview

by renewable energy

by subsidies cuts

by sulfur emissions

climate sensitivity

coal

electric power plants

levelized cost comparison of

natural gas and

subsidies cuts

coffee drinking

Coffman, Mike

cognitive biases

collapse, societal

commodity prices

food and

minerals and metals

oil

peak super-cycles

water

Condon, Mark

confirmation bias

corn

corporate self-interest

cotton

cultural commitments theory

Curry, Judith

dairy industry

Darwin, Charles

Daschle, Thomas

Davis, Margaret

DDE (DDT metabolite)

DDT (pesticide)

agricultural benefits of

ban

birds harmed by

cancer and

creation of

disease-fighting benefits of

metabolism of

reproductive problems from

Deffeyes, Ken

deforestation

Delucchi, Mark

dematerialization

demographic transition.
See also
population

Department of Defense (DOD)

Department of Energy

developing nations

biotech crops in

carbon tax strategy for

climate change aid to

demographic transition delay in

fertility rate comparisons in

food aid to

Green Revolution in

population projections in

water privatization in

diabetes

disease.
See also
cancer

blindness

diabetes

malaria

mortality rate from

typhus

vaccines

Dismal Theorem

Doces, John

DOD.
See
Department of Defense

Dornelas, Maria

drought

Earth First!

Earth Policy Institute

Earth Summit

Eberstadt, Nicholas

ecological fitting

economic costs and benefits.
See
climate change costs and benefits

economic freedom

economic growth.
See also
income increase

benefits overview

climate adaptation and

climate mitigation and

commodity super-cycles and

consumption decline and

elitist resistance to

fertility rate decline and

free-market capitalism

intergenerational equity and

modern resource efficiency in

pollution correlation to

societal collapse and

sustainable development and

trial and error for

Eco-Scam
(Bailey)

ecosystems, novel

EDCs.
See
endocrine disrupting chemicals

education, fertility rate and

Ehrlich, Anne

Ehrlich, Paul

on cancer increase

current reassessment by

on extinction

on Green Revolution

on life expectancy

on population growth

on resource depletion

EIA.
See
Energy Information Administration

EKC.
See
Environmental Kuznets Curve

electric vehicles

electromagnetic fields (EMFs)

Ellis, Erle

Elser, James

emissions.
See also
carbon emissions; climate change

animal

increase in

nitrous oxide

reduction in

reduction negotiations failed

reduction negotiations future

reduction negotiations promised

sulfur dioxide

Emmott, Stephen

endangered species.
See
extinction

Endangered Species Act

endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs)

doomsayers on

health problems from

research faults

energy.
See also
carbon emissions; coal; oil

Bailey's work in

biofuels

consumption

cost of, levelized

cost of, reducing

EMF

innovation

natural gas

new consensus on

nuclear

renewable

solar

subsidies

wind

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

Energy Watch Group (EWG)

ENSO.
See
El Ni
ñ
o Southern Oscillation

Environmental Defense Fund

Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Erten, Bilge

estrogen, synthetic

Europe

biotech crops viewed by

carbon trading in

industrialization in

meat industry in

rewilding

EWG.
See
Energy Watch Group

extinction

current rates of

deforestation and

endangerment or

history

nature restoration and

new species and

ocean animal

predictions

protection from

recovery

rewilding

ExxonMobil

famine predictions

fertility rate and

Green Revolution solution to

Malthus's

FAO.
See
Food and Agriculture Organization

Farrell, Paul

FDA.
See
Food and Drug Administration

female health

Ferdinand, Franz

Ferris, Timothy

fertility rates

decline per economists

decline per evolutionary biologists

developing nations

economic freedom and

education and

food production, famine and

globalized trade and

income and

innovation and

life expectancy and

mortality rates and

rule of law and

sperm quality and count decline

fertilizers

biotech efficiency with

climate mitigation and

resource depletion by