21. Coercive Recycling, Forced Conservation, and Free-Market Alternatives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Analytical Contents xiii
4. List of Figures xxi
5. List of Tables xxxi
6. Preface xxxiii
7. Acknowledgments for the First Fdition xli
8. Acknowledgments for the Second Edition xliii
9. Introduction. What Are the Real Population and Resource Problems? 3
10. PART ONE: TOWARD OUR BEAUTIFUL RESOURCE FUTURE
11. 1. The Amazing Theory of Raw-Material Scarcity 23
12. 2. Why Are Material-Technical Resource Forecasts So Often Wrong? 41
13. 3. Can the Supply of Natural Resources—Especially Energy— Really Be Infinite? Yes! 54
14. 4. The Grand Theory 73
15. 5. Famine 1995? or 2025? or 1975? 84
16. 6. What Are the Limits on Food Production? 97
17. 7. The Worldwide Food Situation Now: Shortage Crises, Glut Crises, and Government 109
18. 8. Are We Losing Ground? 127
19. 9. Two Bogeymen: "Urban Sprawl" and Soil Erosion 139
20. 10. Water, Wood, Wetlands—and What Next? 151
21. 11. When Will We Run Out of Oil? Never! 162
22. 12. Todays Energy Issues 182
23. 13. Nuclear Power: Tomorrows Greatest Energy Opportunity 203
24. 14. A Dying Planet? How the Media Have Scared the Public 212
25. 15. The Peculiar Theory of Pollution 223
26. 16. Whither the History of Pollution? 233
27. 17. Pollution Today: Specific Trends and Issues 241
28. 18. Bad Environmental and Resource Scares 258
29. 19. Will Our Consumer Wastes Bury Us? 275
30. 20. Should We Conserve Resources for Others' Sakes? What Kinds of Resources Need Conservation? 283
31. 21. Coercive Recycling, Forced Conservation, and Free-Market Alternatives 297
32. PART TWO: POPULATION GROWTH'S EFFECT UPON OUR RESOURCES AND LIVING STANDARD
33. 22. Standing Room Only? The Demographic Facts 311
34. 23. What Will Future Population Growth Be? 326
35. 24. Do Humans Breed Like Flies? Or Like Norwegian Rats? 342
36. 25. Population Growth and the Stock of Capital 357
37. 26. Population's Effects on Technology and Productivity 367
38. 27. Economies of Scope and Education 391
39. 28. Population Growth, Natural Resources, and Future Generations 399
40. 29. Population Growth and Land 412
41. 30. Are People an Environmental Pollution? 429
42. 31. Are Humans Causing Species Holocaust? 439
43. 32. A Greater Population Does Not Damage Health, or Psychological and Social Weil-Being 459
44. 33. The Big Economic Picture: Population Growth and Living Standards in MDCs 471
45. 34. The Big Picture II: LD 491
46. PART THREE: BEYOND THE DATA
47. 35. How the Comparisons People Make Affect Their Beliefs about Whether Things Are Getting Better or Worse 513
48. 36. The Rhetoric of Population Control: Does the End Justify the Means? 519
49. 37. The Reasoning behind the Rhetoric 537
50. 38. Ultimately—What Are Your Values? 547
51. 39. The Key Values 557
52. Conclusion. The Ultimate Resource 578
53. Epilogue. My Critics and I 593
54. Notes 617
55. References 653
56. Index 691