BETRAYAL OF SCIENCE AND REASON : How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future

Washington, D.C: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1998. First Edition, 8th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine w/a whisper of shelfwear. Biologist & Bing Professor Emeritus of Population Studies of the Dept of Biology of Stanford Univ & President of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology, is known for warnings of the consequences of population growth & limited resources expounded in The Population Bomb of 1968, co-authored with his wife Anne Howland Ehrlich (1933 -), in which they predicted that "in the 1970s ... millions of people will starve to death. Mercifully that did not come to pass, but authors do, however, find their predictions on disease & climate change were essentially correct, and human overpopulation remains a major issue. Here, the husband-and-wife environmental science team presents a critical analysis of overpopulation & human consumption in conjunction w/scientific findings on global climate change, ozone depletion & deminishing biodiversity & essential resources. 335 pgs in 13 chapters: 1, A Personal Odyssey; 2, "Wise Use" & Environmental Anti-Science; 3, In Defense of Science; 4, The Good News . . . in Perspective; 5, Fables about Population & Food; 6, Fables about Non-living Resources; 7. Biological Diversity & the Endangered Species Act; 8, Fables about the Atmosphere & Climate; 9, Fables about Toxic Substances; 10, Fables about Economics & the Environment; 11, Faulty Transmissions; 12, How Can Good Science Become Good Policy?; and 13, One Planet, One Experiment, followed by 2 Appendices.