The End of Doom (53 page)

Shapiro, Samuel

Shiva, Vandana

Silent Spring
(Carson)

Simmons, Matthew

Simon, Julian

Singer, Fred

Singer, Hans

Smil, Vaclav

smoking, cancer and

Smulders, Sjak

societal collapse

solar power

Sosis, Richard

Souder, William

soybeans

sperm quality and count decline

Speth, James Gustave

SPICE.
See
Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering

storms

Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE)

subsidies

cutting

energy

food production

Sugiyama, Taishi

sulfur dioxide

Sunstein, Cass

superpests

superweeds

sustainable development.
See also
climate change mitigation

Swanson, Richard

Sweeney, Edmund

Synfuels Corporation

synthetic biology

synthetic chemicals.
See also
DDT; endocrine disrupting chemicals

Tahil, William

Tainter, Joseph

technology.
See
biotech crops; biotechnology; innovation

temperature increase

climate sensitivity and

projections

trends

temperature increase hiatus

modeling error and

state of

theories on

TerraPower

Tesla

testicular cancer

Thierer, Adam

thorium

3-D printing

Thun, Michael

Tierney, John

tobacco, cancer and

tornadoes

transient climate response

traveling wave reactors

typhus

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

United Nations (UN).
See also
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

climate change negotiations by

Conference on Trade and Development

on endocrine disruption

FAO

on fertility rate

on population growth

on sustainable development

uranium

urbanization

autonomous vehicles and

commodity price super-cycles and

nature restoration by

population and

US Department of Agriculture (USDA)

US Geological Survey (USGS)

vaccinations

Varmus, Harold

vehicles

electric

self-driving autonomous

Vellucci, Alfred

volcanic aerosols

Waggoner, Paul

water resources.
See also
ocean

Watson, James

Weisman, Alan

Weiss, Francis Joseph

Weiss, Harvey

Weitzman, Martin

Wernick, Iddo

wheat

White, David

White, Stuart

Whole Foods Market

whooping cranes

Wildavsky, Aaron

Wilson, E. O.

wind power

Wingspread Center

Wirth, Timothy

World Bank

World Health Organization

World Trade Organization

World War I

World War II

World Wildlife Fund

Worldwatch Institute

Wright, Joseph

Xi Jinping

Yale Cultural Cognition Project

Zetland, David

Zilberman, David

Zimmerman, Burke

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

RONALD BAILEY
is the author of
Ecoscam
and an award-winning science correspondent for
Reason
magazine and
Reason.com
, where he writes a weekly science and technology column. He has also worked as a staff writer at
Forbes,
and his writing has appeared in
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CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1.
Peak Population?

2.
Is the World Running on Empty?

3.
Never Do Anything for the First Time

4.
What Cancer Epidemic?

5.
The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?

6.
Can We Cope with the Heat?

7.
Is the Ark Sinking?

CONCLUSION:
ENVIRONMENTAL RENEWAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

NOTES

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALSO BY RONALD BAILEY

COPYRIGHT

 

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