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REQUIEM, by Jay Hanson, 02/20/98

SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS
link to TROUBLED WATERS: A CALL FOR ACTION
RS AND NAS STATEMENT is the official 1992 statement of the Royal Society and the National Academy of Sciences.
WORLD SCIENTISTS' WARNING TO HUMANITY is from the Union of Concerned Scientists in 1992.
WORLD SCIENTISTS' CALL FOR ACTION AT THE KYOTO CLIMATE SUMMIT
Science Summit" on World Population: A Joint Statement by 58 of the World's Scientific Academies.
ESA Passes Resolution on Human Population from the Ecological Society of America (1994)
ECONOMIST'S STATEMENT ON GLOBAL WARMING Feb. 13, 1997
ECOLOGIST'S STATEMENT ON GLOBAL WARMING May 20, 1997

ENERGY SECTION
by Jay Hanson, 10/11/97
THE WORLD PETROLEUM LIFE-CYCLE: Encircling the Production Peak, by Richard Duncan, Institute on Energy and Man, Seattle, WA, 1997.
THE COMING OIL CRISIS, by C. J. Campbell, 1997.
GeoDestinies, by Walter Youngquist PhD & Chair Emeritus, Department of Geology, University of Oregon, 1997.
A Peak Under the Covers, by Jay Hanson, 11/11/97.
The Death of the Oil Economy, by Ted Trainer, Spring, 1997.
Get Ready for Another Oil Shock, by L.F. Ivanhoe, February, 1997.
Future world oil supplies: There is a finite limit. Ivanhoe on Hubbert (1995).
Renewable Energy: Economic and Environmental Issues, by David Pimentel, G. Rodrigues, T. Wane, R. Abrams, K. Goldberg, H. Staecker, E. Ma, L. Brueckner, L. Trovato, C. Chow, U. Govindarajulu, and S. Boerke. (Originally published in BioScience -- Vol. 44, No. 8, September 1994)
The Olduvai Theory: Sliding Towards a Post-Industrial Stone Age, by Dr. R. C. Duncan, July 1996
Hubbert left Dedication Newsletter

CLIMATE CHANGE
link to Changes in Time in the Temperature of the Earth
A series of six charts displaying variations in temperature
from the Mesozoic to the present, see the web site listed below.
The current "blip" is put in perspective, based on the work of a
number of scientists. References are cited.
link to Globally-Averaged Atmospheric Temperatures
A brief discussion with figures depicting global lower stratospheric
temperature variations during the period 1979 to 1997, based on data
obtained by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
TIROS-N satellite.
THE CLIMATE BOMB: Climate Change and the Fate of the Northern Boreal Forests, Greenpeace, 1994
SUDDEN CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH HUMAN HISTORY by Jonathan Adams and Randy Foote
Dead on Arrival: positive in the climate system
BP STATEMENT ON GLOBAL WARMING , by John Browne, Group Chief Executive, British Petroleum (BP America) Stanford University, 19 May 1997
THE HEAT IS ON: The warming of the world's climate sparks a blaze of denial, by Ross Gelbspan (12/95).
DEAD. WRONG. Is a short essay on the fundamental errors of industrial society. Also included are some references for OZONE DEPLETION and GLOBAL WARMING.

BUGS
HEALTH IN THE HOT ZONE How would global warming affect humans? By Richard Monastersky (April, 1996)
DEVELOPMENT, GLOBAL CHANGE, AND THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT, by Gretchen C. Daily & Paul R. Ehrlich, 1995

MORAL THEORY
A General Statement of the Tragedy of the Commons, by Herschel Elliott, Feb. 1997
Christianity and Evolutionary Ethics , by Patricia A. Williams (June 1996)
THE NEED FOR TRANSCENDENCE IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD a short essay by By Vaclav Havel (1994)

CARRYING CAPACITY
Revisiting Carrying Capacity: Area-Based Indicators of Sustainability, by William E. Rees, The University of British Columbia, 1996
OVERSHOOT, the classic by William Catton, 1982.
Ethical Implications of Carrying Capacity , by Garrett Hardin (1977)
CULTURAL CARRYING CAPACITY: A biological approach to human problems, by Garrett Hardin (1986)
THE WORLD'S MOST POLYMORPHIC SPECIES: Carrying capacity transgressed two ways, by William Catton (June 1987).
THE INTRODUCTION, INCREASE, AND CRASH OF REINDEER ON ST. MATTHEW ISLAND - by David R. Klein (April, 1968).
POPULATION POLITICS: The Carrying Capacity of the United States, by Dr. Virginia Abernethy (1993)
HUMAN CARRYING CAPACITY DEFINED defines "carrying capacity".
TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
Tragedy of the Commons Re-stated, by Jay Hanson, 6/14/97
THE FATAL FREEDOM (the Tragedy of the Commons), by Jay Hanson 8/29/97.
The Tragedy of the Commons (the original) , by Garrett Hardin (1968)

FOOD, LAND, WATER AND POPULATION
LAND, ENERGY AND WATER: THE CONSTRAINTS GOVERNING IDEAL U.S. POPULATION SIZE by David Pimentel and Marcia Pimentel (1991)
link to U.S. FOOD PRODUCTION THREATENED BY RAPID POPULATION GROWTH, the Pimentels (1997)
Optimum Human Population Size, by Gretchen C. Daily
Restoring Value to the WorId's Degraded Lands, by Gretchen C. Daily (1995)
An exploratory model of the impact of rapid climate change on the world food situation, by Grechen C. Daily and Paul R. Ehrlich (1990)
FOOD, LAND, POPULATION and the U.S. ECONOMY-FULL REPORT by David Pimentel of Cornell University and Mario Giampietro Istituto of Nazionale della Nutrizione, Rome. November 21, 1994
CONSTRAINTS ON THE EXPANSION OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY by Henery W Kindall and David Pimentel (1994)
Response to Bartlett and Lytwak (1995): Population and Immigration Policy in the United States , by Anne H. Ehrlich Paul R. Ehrlich
Chronic Famine and the Immorality of Food Aid , by Joseph Fletcher (1991)
THE CORNUCOPIAN FALLACIES by Lindsey Grant (1992)
IMPACT OF POPULATION GROWTH ON FOOD SUPPLIES AND ENVIRONMENT by David Pimentel, Xuewen Huang, Ana Cordova, and Marcia Pimentel (February, 1996)
KERMIT OLSON MEMORIAL LECTURE: Food Supply and World Population, by David Pimentel (March, 6, 1995)
Putting the Bite on Planet Earth, by Don Hinrichson, Oct. 1994
ENERGY AND POPULATION: Transitional Issues and Eventual Limits. by Paul J. Werbos (1993?)
FOOD, LAND, POPULATION and the U.S. ECONOMY-EXECUTIVE SUMMARY by David Pimentel of Cornell University and Mario Giampietro Istituto of Nazionale della Nutrizione, Rome. Executive Summary Released November 21, 1994
IMMIGRATION: NO. 1 IN U.S. GROWTH New Look Shows Greater Role in 1970-90 Population Increase, by Roy Beck (1991-1992)
THE POPULATION EXPLOSION is from Paul and Anne Ehirlich. This is also where to find  JULIAN SIMON'S BET and HIS ULTIMATE RESOURCE
How and Why Journalists Avoid the Population-Environment Connection, by T. Michael Maher, March 1997
Negative Population Growth, by John B. Hall, Sept. 1996
The Food "Surplus": a Staple Illusion of Economics; a Cruel Illusion for Populations, by Jim C. Fandrem, Winter, 1988
Rethinking the Environmental Impacts of Population, Affluence and Technology, by Thomas Dietz and Eugene A. Rosa (1994)
WHY DO WOMEN HAVE BABIES? A book review by Robert A. McConnell (September, 1996)
HOW TO INFLUENCE FERTILITY: The Experience So Far, by John R. Weeks (1990)
THE TIGHTENING CONFLICT: POPULATION, ENERGY USE, AND THE ECOLOGY OF AGRICULTURE, by Mario Giampietro and David Pimentel (1994)
LIVING WITHIN OUR ENVIRONMENTAL MEANS: Natural Resources And An Optimum Human Population, by Rachel F. Preiser (1994)
National Security Study Memorandum 200 April 24, 1974
The 1972 Rockefeller Commission Report on U. S. Population, July, 1969
WHY EXCESS IMMIGRATION DAMAGES THE ENVIRONMENT from Population-Environment Balance (1992)
IMMIGRATION, JOBS & WAGES: The Misuses of Econometrics, by Donald L. Huddle (1992)
IMMIGRATION AND THE U.S. ENERGY SHORTAGE by Donald Mann, President Negative Population Growth, Inc. (May 1988)
FULL HOUSE is a Worldwatch book review.
THE LAST OASIS is a Worldwatch book review.
NET LOSS is a Worldwatch book review.

SUSTAINABILITY
LAWS, HYPOTHESES, OBSERVATIONS AND PREDICTIONS RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY from Al Bartlett (1994)
The Meaning of Sustainability: Biogeophysical Aspects, by John P. Holdren, Gretchen C. Daily, and Paul R. Ehrlich (1995)
Population, Sustainability, and Earth's Carrying Capacity: A framework for estimating population sizes and lifestyles that could be sustained without undermining future generations , by Gretchen C. Daily and Paul R. Ehrlich (1992)
Three General Policies to Achieve Sustainability , by Robert Costanza (1994).
Sustainable Development. Conventional versus Emergent Alternative Wisdom, by David Korten (1996).
SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING: Resource Load Carrying Capacity and K­phase Technology, by Peter Hartley (1993)
Socioeconomic Equity: A Critical Element in Sustainability, by Gretchen C. Daily & Paul R. Ehrlich (Feb, 1995)
Foreclosing the future, by Gretchen C. Daily (Nov. 1995)
UNSUSTAINABILITY: A CONSENSUS is a short piece by Paul Ekins about unsustainability.
CREATING JOBS IN A SUSTAINABLE WORLD by Nadia Steinzor - ZPG Reporter (Sept/Oct, 1996)
GREENING THE CORPORATION by Ward Morehouse. Address to the Greens Gathering, Los Angeles, August 16, 1996

OTHER ECOLOGY
THE LANGUAGE OF ECOLOGY defines "overshoot", crash" and "die-off".
HUMAN APPROPRIATION OF THE PRODUCTS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS, by Peter Vitousek, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich and Pamela Matson (1986).
The Patch Disturbance Species, by John Logan, Jan. 2, 1997.
AMERICA'S TREES ARE DYING by Charles E. Little (1995)
WHAT DANGERS LIE AHEAD? by James E. Lovelock (1994)
RETURN OF THE GROUP: People may have evolved to further collective as well as individual interests, by Bruce Bower (1995)

SYSTEMS AND ECONOMICS
COMPLEXITY, PROBLEM SOLVING, AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES, by Joseph A. Tainter, 1996.
MYTHS OF THE POLITICAL-ECONOMIC WORLD VIEW, by John Peet, 1992.
Energy, Entropy, Economics, and Ecology defines "entropy" and how it relates to the economy.
URBAN DYNAMICS a few quotes from Jay W. Forrester.
LIMITS TO GROWTH discusses the Club of Rome's seminal work.
SUSTAINABLE GROWTH: An Impossibility Theorem, by Herman E. Daly (1993)
A Systems Perspective on the Interrelations Between Natural, human-made, and cultural capital, by Fikret Berkes & Carl Folke, Oct. 1991
THE 4P APPROACH TO DEALING WITH SCIENTIFIC UNCERTAINTY by Robert Costanza and Laura Cornwell (1992)
THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE is an alternative to cost/benefit analysis
TOO MANY RICH PEOPLE: Weighing Relative Burdens on the Planet, by Paul Ehrlich (1994)
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE GDP is a description of the Genuine Progress Indicator-GPI.
FREE TRADE - NAFTA - WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
STEADY-STATE ECONOMICS: A Catechism of Growth Fallacies, by Herman Daly (1991).
TOWARDS A NEW ECONOMICS: Questioning Growth, by Herman E. Daly, 1971
MONEY AND MAGIC A review of H.C. Binswanger's Money and Magic (A Critique of the Modern Economy in Light of Goethe's Faust) University of Chicago Press. by Herman Daly (Winter, 1996)
SUGARSCAPE A review from SCIENCE NEWS.
POSITIVE is an example of the catastrophic view.
OUR PERPETUAL GROWTH UTOPIA by Fred Charles Ikle (1994)
URBAN DYNAMICS a short clip from a book by Jay Forrester (1969)
Rewards of Pejoristic Thinking , by Garrett Hardin (1977)
WHO BENEFITS? WHO PAYS? by Garrett Hardin (1985)
An Ecolate View of the Human Predicament by Garrett Hardin(date ?)
The Problem of Induction, by Sir Karl Popper (1953, 1974)
FAREWELL LECTURE TO WORLD BANK by Herman E. Daly, January 14, 1994

ODDS AND ENDS

"a kind of Pontius Pilate feeling"

ABSTRACT:
In this essay, I examine the economic model of "rational man" and how the model legitimizes prevailing public policy. "Rational man" supposedly weighs the important, known variables and then makes make that decision which is most likely to achieve the desired end (the greatest "utility"). Thus, we can say that public policy is founded on the notion that people calculate the utility of each decision, somewhat like a computer.

Phillip Morris: "Smoking is a personal choice, and so is quitting."

But modern cognitive science has shown that people do not make decisions by calculating the utility of each decision. Thus, economic "rational man" is a fraud that leaves the public exposed to ongoing economic and political exploitation by corporate media experts. Moreover, this fraud provides economists and political leaders with effective "moral cover", or in the words of Adolph Eichmann, "a kind of Pontius Pilate feeling" that leaves them free of all guilt for their dirty deeds.

"a kind of Pontius Pilate feeling" —by Jay Hanson, 04/01/97

  KNOW THYSELF— A Report of the Dominant Animal Life on the Third Planet: Executive Summary, by Yaj, January 24, 1997.

THE INDUSTRIAL RELIGION draws a parallel between the churchmen who fought against the Copernican Revolution and the modern economic "growthmen".
THERMODYNAMICS AND THE SUSTAINABILITY OF FOOD PRODUCTION, by Jay Hanson, November 4, 1996
WHERE WILL IT END? by Jay Hanson.
SYSTEMS CRASH provides three different sources-using three different data sets-showing a worldwide includes a table showing review on WHO WILL FEED CHINA , a press THE COLLAPSE OF THE WORLD'S FISHERIES , an article on FISH FARMING , a short release on THE EARTH'S CARRYING CAPACITY , a clip from THE COMING ANARCHY , and a discussion of NPP .
CORPORATE RULE gives a short history of the modern corporation and describes its essential functions. It also contains a book review of CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD by WHEN David Korten.
ENDING CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: We The People Revoking Our Plutocracy.
THE COMING ANARCHY by Robert D. Kaplan, The Atlantic Monthly, February 1994. Quicktime Movie of Dead Babies Being Thrown Into a Dump Truck CNN, November 1996 [ Download the Quicktime Movie Player from Apple ]
Rural Rwanda Faces Uneasy Balance of Fear as Refugees Return New York Times, December 26, 1996.
ELEVEN INHERENT RULES OF CORPORATE BEHAVIOR is a short essay by Jerry Mander.
ELECTRONIC HEROIN is about the addictive qualities of television.
TV MUTANTS is about how television alters the human brain.
BRAINWASHING is about how television influences human actions.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER ON U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL DIPLOMACY (1996)
UNDERWEIGHTING OF BASE-RATE INFORMATION REFLECTS IMPORTANT DIFFICULTIES PEOPLE HAVE WITH PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE by Robert M. Ham (1994)
VICE PRESIDENT GORE CALLS FOR "ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT CARD" Challenges Federal Agencies, Scientific Community To Monitor Nation',s Ecosystems from The White House (1996)

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