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by Ronald Bailey


  Brown, Lester

  Brown, Patrick

  Brundtland, Gro Harlem

  Brunk, Gregory

  BST. See bovine somatotropin

  Bt. See Bacillus thuringiensis

  Bulled, Nicola

  Burbach, David

  Caldeira, Ken

  Campbell, Colin

  cancer

  aging and

  Bailey’s personal concern for

  breast

  cell phones and

  DDT and

  doomsayers

  EMFs and

  endocrine disruption and

  false positives for

  incidence decrease in

  incidence increase in

  leukemia

  lung

  mortality rate

  pancreatic

  pharmaceuticals

  pollution and

  risk factors

  saccharin and

  synthetic chemicals and

  testicular

  tobacco smoking and

  capitalism, free-market

  carbon emissions

  budget and projections

  capture and storage

  climate sensitivity to

  consensus on

  current

  Kyoto Protocol on

  natural gas reduction in

  nuclear power reduction in

  ocean acidification from

  renewable energy and

  tax

  trade

  Carson, Rachel

  on DDT

  modern environmentalism from

  on synthetic estrogen

  Carter, Jimmy

  Cavalieri, Liebe

  CBD. See Center for Biological Diversity

  CDC. See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  cell phones

  Center for Biological Diversity (CBD)

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

  CFCs. See chlorofluorocarbon

  chemicals, synthetic. See also DDT; endocrine disrupting chemicals

  China

  climate negotiations with

  neodymium from

  sulfur dioxide emissions in

  chlorofluorocarbon (CFCs)

  Christy, John

  Clayton, Blake

  Clements, Frederic

  climate change

  adaptation

  climate sensitivity and

  developing nations’ aid for

  Dismal Theorem on

  glacial melting

  natural disasters and

  natural variability and

  ocean acidification and

  overview

  political polarization on

  projections

  sea-level rise

  skeptics

  temperature increase

  temperature increase hiatus

  transient climate response and

  climate change costs and benefits

  of adaptation

  of energy innovation

  of mitigation

  of natural disaster damage

  necessity for

  climate change mitigation

  by carbon capture and storage

  by carbon tax

  by carbon trade

  costs and benefits

  economic growth and

  emergency backup plan for

  energy consensus and

  geoengineering innovation for

  intergenerational equity and

  by marine cloud whitening

  negotiations failed

  negotiations future

  negotiations promised

  by nuclear power

  overview

  by renewable energy

  by subsidies cuts

  by sulfur emissions

  climate sensitivity

  coal

  electric power plants

  levelized cost comparison of

  natural gas and

  subsidies cuts

  coffee drinking

  Coffman, Mike

  cognitive biases

  collapse, societal

  commodity prices

  food and

  minerals and metals

  oil

  peak super-cycles

  water

  Condon, Mark

  confirmation bias

  corn

  corporate self-interest

  cotton

  cultural commitments theory

  Curry, Judith

  dairy industry

  Darwin, Charles

  Daschle, Thomas

  Davis, Margaret

  DDE (DDT metabolite)

  DDT (pesticide)

  agricultural benefits of

  ban

  birds harmed by

  cancer and

  creation of

  disease-fighting benefits of

  metabolism of

  reproductive problems from

  Deffeyes, Ken

  deforestation

  Delucchi, Mark

  dematerialization

  demographic transition. See also population

  Department of Defense (DOD)

  Department of Energy

  developing nations

  biotech crops in

  carbon tax strategy for

  climate change aid to

  demographic transition delay in

  fertility rate comparisons in

  food aid to

  Green Revolution in

  population projections in

  water privatization in

  diabetes

  disease. See also cancer

  blindness

  diabetes

  malaria

  mortality rate from

  typhus

  vaccines

  Dismal Theorem

  Doces, John

  DOD. See Department of Defense

  Dornelas, Maria

  drought

  Earth First!

  Earth Policy Institute

  Earth Summit

  Eberstadt, Nicholas

  ecological fitting

  economic costs and benefits. See climate change costs and benefits

  economic freedom

  economic growth. See also income increase

  benefits overview

  climate adaptation and

  climate mitigation and

  commodity super-cycles and

  consumption decline and

  elitist resistance to

  fertility rate decline and

  free-market capitalism

  intergenerational equity and

  modern resource efficiency in

  pollution correlation to

  societal collapse and

  sustainable development and

  trial and error for

  Eco-Scam (Bailey)

  ecosystems, novel

  EDCs. See endocrine disrupting chemicals

  education, fertility rate and

  Ehrlich, Anne

  Ehrlich, Paul

  on cancer increase

  current reassessment by

  on extinction

  on Green Revolution

  on life expectancy

  on population growth

  on resource depletion

  EIA. See Energy Information Administration

  EKC. See Environmental Kuznets Curve

  electric vehicles

  electromagnetic fields (EMFs)

  Ellis, Erle

  Elser, James

  emissions. See also carbon emissions; climate change

  animal

  increase in

  nitrous oxide

  reduction in

  reduction negotiations failed

  reduction negotiations future

  reduction negotiations promised

  sulfur dioxide

  Emmott, Stephen

  endangered species. See extinction

  Endangered Species Act

  endocrine d
isrupting chemicals (EDCs)

  doomsayers on

  health problems from

  research faults

  energy. See also carbon emissions; coal; oil

  Bailey’s work in

  biofuels

  consumption

  cost of, levelized

  cost of, reducing

  EMF

  innovation

  natural gas

  new consensus on

  nuclear

  renewable

  solar

  subsidies

  wind

  Energy Information Administration (EIA)

  Energy Watch Group (EWG)

  ENSO. See El Niño Southern Oscillation

  Environmental Defense Fund

  Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)

  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

  Erten, Bilge

  estrogen, synthetic

  Europe

  biotech crops viewed by

  carbon trading in

  industrialization in

  meat industry in

  rewilding

  EWG. See Energy Watch Group

  extinction

  current rates of

  deforestation and

  endangerment or

  history

  nature restoration and

  new species and

  ocean animal

  predictions

  protection from

  recovery

  rewilding

  ExxonMobil

  famine predictions

  fertility rate and

  Green Revolution solution to

  Malthus’s

  FAO. See Food and Agriculture Organization

  Farrell, Paul

  FDA. See Food and Drug Administration

  female health

  Ferdinand, Franz

  Ferris, Timothy

  fertility rates

  decline per economists

  decline per evolutionary biologists

  developing nations

  economic freedom and

  education and

  food production, famine and

  globalized trade and

  income and

  innovation and

  life expectancy and

  mortality rates and

  rule of law and

  sperm quality and count decline

  fertilizers

  biotech efficiency with

  climate mitigation and

  resource depletion by

  Fettweis, Christopher

  fisheries

  floods

  food

  aid

  labeling

  Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

  Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

  food production. See also biotech crops; pesticides

  biofuel instead of

  canola

  cassava

  commodity prices and

  consumption and efficiencies in

  corn

  dairy industry

  doomsayers

  famine predictions and

  fertility rates and

  fertilizer for

  frost damage and

  future of

  government subsidies

  Green Revolution

  herbicides

  hormones in

  innovation

  meat industry

  organic

  potatoes

  precautionary principle on

  rice

  salmon

  soybeans

  statistics

  water used for

  wheat

  forests

  biotech trees

  deforestation and reforestation

  novel

  Forrester, Jay

  Forster, Piers

  fracking

  free-market capitalism

  Friends of the Earth

  Fukushima nuclear disaster

  fusion reactors

  Gaines, Steven

  Galor, Oded

  Gardner, Delworth

  Garrett, Banning

  genetically modified organisms (GMOs). See biotech crops

  geoengineering

  Giardina, Christian

  glacial melting

  Gleason, Henry

  global warming. See climate change

  Glover, Anne

  glyphosate herbicide

  GMOs (genetically modified organisms). See biotech crops

  Golden Rice

  Gonzalo, Julio A.

  Goodstein, David

  Gore, Al

  Gould, Stephen Jay

  government

  biotech regulation proposals by

  civilization and societal collapse theories and

  coal gasification failure in

  DDT ban by

  new energy consensus support by

  oil corruption and ownership by

  overbureaucratization of

  subsidies

  water misallocation by

  Grantham, Jeremy

  Green, Rhys

  Green Revolution

  greenhouse gases. See also carbon emissions; climate change

  Greenpeace

  Grund, Thomas

  Gurian-Sherman, Doug

  Hardin, Garrett

  Harte, John

  Harte, Mary Ellen

  Hayek, Friedrich

  health. See also disease

  biotechnology for

  birth control pills

  birth defects

  coffee drinking

  DDT creation for

  EMFs and

  endocrine disruption and

  false positives in

  female

  male

  nanotechnology for

  obesity and

  pathological science and

  penile deformation

  pesticides and

  pharmaceuticals and

  politicization of

  precautionary principle positioned for

  reproductive problems

  saccharin and

  sperm

  synthetic biology for

  Heinberg, Richard

  herbicides

  Heritage Foundation

  Hickey, Joseph

  HIV/AIDS

  Holdren, John

  homeopathy

  Hooker, Joseph

  Hopfenberg, Russell

  hormones, in meat and dairy. See also endocrine disrupting chemicals

  Howard, Ted

  Hubbert, M. King

  Hueper, Wilhelm

  hurricanes

  hydraulic fracturing

  hypospadias

  IEA. See International Energy Agency

  IIASA. See International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

  Iler, Stuart

  income increase

  climate adaptation and

  climate mitigation and

  fertility rate decline and

  intergenerational equity and

  open-access social orders and

  trend overview

  India

  biotech crops in

  climate change negotiations with

  farmer suicide in

  fertility rate and life expectancy in

  Green Revolution in

  oil consumption patterns for

  Orissa cyclone

  Industrial Revolution

  industrialization

  commodity super-cycles and

  fertility rate decline and

  innovation trial and error in

  pollution correlation to

  Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

  Inhofe, James

  innovation

  cognitive biases against

  elitist resistance to

  fertility rate decline and

  free-market capitalist drive for

  population projections and

  positive possibilities with />
  precautionary resistance to

  trial and error for

  innovation sectors and types

  additive manufacturing

  autonomous vehicles

  biofuel

  biotech crops

  cellular

  climate geoengineering

  DDT

  electric vehicle

  energy, clean

  energy efficiency

  food production

  Green Revolution

  lasers

  metal

  nanotechnology

  nuclear power

  oil

  pharmaceutical

  resource efficiency

  solar power

  insulin

  Intellectual Ventures

  intergenerational equity

  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

  on climate adaptation

  on climate mitigation

  on extinction

  on natural disasters

  on natural gas efficiency

  on ocean acidification

  on temperature increase

  on water privatization

  International Energy Agency (IEA)

  International Food Policy Research Institute

  International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

  International Monetary Fund

  International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

  Ioannidis, John

  IPCC. See Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  Iran

  ITIF. See Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

  IUCN. See International Union for the Conservation of Nature

  Jacks, David

  Jacobson, Mark

  Jaggard, Keith

  Jenkins, Martin

  Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

  Kahan, Dan

  Kazman, Sam

  Kennedy, Ted

  Kershen, Drew

  Klare, Michael

  Klein, Naomi

  Kloor, Keith

  Knobloch, Kevin

  Kricher, John

  Kron, Thomas

  Kyoto Protocol

  Lackey, Robert

  Lackner, Klaus

  Langmuir, Irving

  lasers

  Leffall, LaSalle D., Jr.

  Lehmijoki, Ulla

  leukemia

  Lewis, Nicholas

  liberalism

  Liebig, Justus von

  life expectancy

  aging, cancer and

  DDT, cancer and

  economic freedom and

  fertility rate and

  The Limits to Growth

  Lincer, Jeffrey

  lithium

  Lockheed Martin

  Lovejoy, Thomas

  Low, Bobbi

  lung cancer

  Lutz, Wolfgang

  MacArthur, Robert

  mad cow disease

  Maddison, Angus

  malaria

  male health

  Malthus, Thomas Robert

  manufacturing, additive

  Marris, Emma

  Marx, Karl

  Mascaro, Joe

  Maugeri, Leonardo

  McCauley, Douglas

  McKibben, Bill

  meat industry

  metals

  commodity prices of

  consumption plateau

  reserve depletion

  methane

  Mexico

  Miller, Georgia

  minerals

  commodity prices of

  geological studies on

  Mokyr, Joel

  monopolies

  Monsanto

  Roundup

  Montague, Peter

  Mooney, Chris

  moral restraint

  Morano, Marc

 

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