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Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Environmental Issues, Rev. Ed.

by: Easton, Thomas A.; Goldfarb, Theodore D.

Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Environmental Issues, Rev. Ed.

by: Easton, Thomas A.; Goldfarb, Theodore D.

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Copyright: 11/17/2003
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
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This Revised edition of Taking Sides: Environmental Issues represents the arguments of leading environmentalists, scientists, and policymakers. The issues reflect a variety of viewpoints and are staged as "pro" and "con" debates. Issues are organized around four core areas: general philosophical and political issues, the environment and technology, disposing of wastes, and the environment and the future. This title is supported by the student website, Dushkin Online (http://www.dushkin.com)

Preface

Introduction: Environmental Issues: The Never-Ending Debate

xii

PART 1 PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS

(116)

Should a Price Be Put on the Goods and Services Provided by the World's Ecosystems?

(24)

Yes: ``Putting a Value on Nature's 'Free' Services,'' World Watch (January/February 1998)

(12)

Janet N. Abramovitz

No: ``Pricing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: The Never-Ending Story,'' BioScience (April 2000)

(10)

Marino Gatto

Giulio A. De Leo

Is Biodiversity Overprotected?

(12)

Yes: ``Regulating Biodiversity: Tragedy in the Political Commons,'' Ideas on Liberty (September 2001)

(4)

David N. Laband

No: ``Why Biodiversity Matters,'' interview by Kris Christen, OECD Observer (Summer 2001)

(6)

E. O. Wilson

Are Environmental Regulations Too Restrictive?

(20)

Yes: ``Saving the Environment From the Environmentalists,'' Commentary (April 1998)

(9)

Peter W. Huber

No: ``Brownlash: The New Environmental Anti-Science,'' The Humanist (November/December 1996)

(9)

Paul R. Ehrlich

Anne H. Ehrlich

Should Environmental Policy Attempt to Cure Environmental Racism?

(18)

Yes: ``Dismantling Environmental Racism in the USA,'' Local Environment (vol. 4, no. 1 1999)

(9)

Robert D. Bullard

No: ``The 'Environmental Racism' Hoax,'' The American Enterprise (November/December 1998)

(7)

David Friedman

Is the Precautionary Principle a Sound Basis for International Policy?

(26)

Yes: ``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)

(11)

Paul L. Stein

No: ``The Perils of Precaution,'' Policy Review (June & July 2001)

(13)

Henry I. Miller

Gregory Conko

Do Environmentalists Overstate Their Case?

102

(15)

Yes: ``Debunking Green Myths,'' Reason (February 2002)

104

(4)

Ronald Bailey

No: ``Skeptical of the Skeptical Environmentalist,'' Skeptic (vol. 9, no. 2, 2002)

108

(9)

David Pimentel

PART 2 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

117

(140)

Should the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Be Opened to Oil Drilling?

118

(20)

Yes: ``To Drill or Not to Drill: Let the Environmentalists Decide,'' The Independent Review (Fall 2001)

120

(9)

Dwight R. Lee

No: ``Fool's Gold in Alaska,'' Foreign Affairs (July/August 2001)

129

(9)

Amory B. Lovins

L. Hunter Lovins

Should DDT Be Banned Worldwide?

138

(16)

Yes: ``Malaria, Mosquitoes, and DDT,'' World Watch (May/June 2002)

140

(9)

Anne Platt McGinn

No: ``A Case of the DDTs,'' National Review (May 14, 2001)

149

(5)

Roger Bate

Is Genetic Engineering an Environmentally Sound Way to Increase Food Production?

154

(30)

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)

156

(15)

No: ``The Emperor's New Crops,'' World Watch (July/August 1999)

171

(13)

Brian Halweil

Do Environmental Hormone Mimics Pose a Potentially Serious Health Threat?

184

(24)

Yes: ``Hormone Disruptors: A Clue to Understanding the Environmental Causes of Disease,'' Environment (June 2001)

186

(11)

Sheldon Krimsky

No: ``Environmental and Dietary Estrogens and Human Health: Is There a Problem?'' Environmental Health Perspectives (April 1995)

197

(11)

Stephen H. Safe

Is the Environmental Protection Agency's Decision to Tighten Air Quality Standards for Ozone and Particulates Justified?

208

(24)

Yes: 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)

210

(11)

Carol M. Browner

No: 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)

221

(11)

Daniel B. Menzel

Do Human Activities Threaten to Change the Global Climate?

232

(25)

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)

234

(13)

No: ``Too Darn Hot?'' Commentary (June 2001)

247

(10)

Kevin A. Shapiro

PART 3 DISPOSING OF WASTES

257

(56)

Hazardous Waste: Should the ``Polluter Pays'' Provision of Superfund Be Weakened?

258

(18)

Yes: ``Stop Superfund Waste,'' Issues in Science and Technology (Spring 1993)

260

(8)

Bernard J. Reilly

No: ``The Sabotage of Superfund,'' Audubon (July/August 1993)

268

(8)

Ted Williams

Municipal Waste: Is Recycling an Environmentally and Economically Sound Waste Management Strategy?

276

(18)

Yes: ``Recycling Is Not Garbage,'' Technology Review (October 1997)

278

(7)

Richard A. Denison

John F. Ruston

No: ``Time to Dump Recycling?'' Issues in Science and Technology (Spring 1995)

285

(9)

Chris Hendrickson

Lester Lave

Francis McMichael

Nuclear Waste: Should the United States Continue to Focus Plans for Permanent Nuclear Waste Disposal Exclusively at Yucca Mountain?

294

(19)

Yes: 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)

296

(11)

Spencer Abraham

No: ``Nuclear Roulette,'' Mother Jones (September/October 2001)

307

(6)

Jon Christensen

PART 4 POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

313

(73)

Is Limiting Population Growth a Key Factor in Protecting the Global Environment?

314

(20)

Yes: ``The Population Explosion: Why We Should Care and What We Should Do About It,'' Environmental Law (vol. 27, no. 4, 1997)

316

(10)

Paul R. Ehrlich

Anne H. Ehrlich

No: ``Body Count,'' National Review (October 25, 1999)

326

(8)

Stephen Moore

Will Pollution Rights Trading Effectively Control Environmental Problems?

334

(16)

Yes: ``The Market for Pollution,'' Environmental Health Perspectives (August 2001)

336

(6)

Charles W. Schmidt

No: ``Trading Away the Earth: Pollution Credits and the Perils of 'Free Market Environmentalism,''' Dollars & Sense (March/April 1996)

342

(8)

Brian Tokar

Will Voluntary Action by Industry Reduce the Need for Future Environmental Regulation?

350

(20)

Yes: ISO 14000 Perspective: So Long! Command and Control...Hello! ISO 14000 (December 1998)

352

(8)

Raymond J. Patchak

William R. Smith

No: ``When Pollution Prevention Meets the Bottom Line,'' Environmental Science and Technology (vol. 31, no. 9, 1997)

360

(10)

Linda Greer

Christopher van Loben Sels

Is Sustainable Development Compatible With Human Welfare?

370

(16)

Yes: ``Sustainable Development: The Ethics Support the Economics,'' Journal of Business Ethics (July 2001)

372

(10)

Dinah M. Payne

Cecily A. Raiborn

No: ``Wilting Greens,'' Reason (December 2002)

382

(4)

Ronald Bailey

Contributors

386

(6)

Index

392

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