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Thomas A. Easton
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McGraw-Hill Education
Language
English
Pages
398

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Subjects
Power resources, Pollution, Environmental protection, Environmental policy, Energy policy, Social aspects, Science, Technology, Nature, effect of human beings on, Environmental ethics

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Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Environmental Issues
2018, McGraw-Hill Education
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Environmental Issues, Expanded
2015, McGraw-Hill Education, McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
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Taking sides: Clashing views on environmental issues
2014, McGraw-Hill Education
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Taking sides: Clashing views in science, technology and society
2010, McGraw-Hill Higher Education
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Table of Contents

Unit 1. Environmental philosophy
Should the precautionary principle become part of national and international law?
Is sustainable development compatible with human welfare?
Do ecosystem services have economic value?
Unit 2. Principles versus politics
Should North America's landscape be restored to its prehuman state?
Should the military be exempt from environmental regulations?
Will restricting carbon emissions damage the economy?
Unit 3. Energy issues
Is global warming a catastrophe that warrants immediate action?
Should we drill for offshore oil?
Is shale gas the solution to our energy woes?
Is renewable energy really green?
Are biofuels a reasonable substitute for fossil fuels?
Is it time to revive nuclear power?
Unit 4. Food and population
Do we have a population problem?
Does commercial fishing have a future?
Can organic farming feed the world?
Unit 5. Toxic chemicals
Should society impose a moratorium on the use and release of "synthetic biology" organisms?
Do environmental hormone mimics pose a potentially serious health threat?
Should the superfund tax be reinstated?
Should the United States reprocess spent nuclear fuel?
Can "green" marketing claims be believed?
Does designating "wild lands" harm rural economies?

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Other Titles
Clashing views on environmental issues, Environmental issues

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Dewey Decimal Class
363.7
Library of Congress
GN1 .T35 2014

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xxxviii, 398 p.
Number of pages
398

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OL26921761M
ISBN 10
0073514543
ISBN 13
9780073514543
OCLC/WorldCat
837954565

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