Julian Simon

Hoodwinking the Nation (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Most people in the United States believe that our environment is getting dirtier, we are running out of natural resources, and population growth is a burden and a threat. These beliefs according to Simon, are entirely wrong. Why do the media report so much false bad news about these? And why do we believe it? Those are the questions distinguished scholar, Julian Simon set out to answer in this book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351515207
• Artikelnr.: 48866644

Autorenporträt

Julian Simon

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: What Do Americans Wrongly Believe about Environment, Resources, and Population?
2: The Vanishing Farmland Scam
3: The Concepts That Lead to Scares about Resources and Population Growth
4: Why Does the Public Not Hear Sound Environmental Thinkers?
5: Why Are So Many Biologists Alarmed?
6: The Old-Time Journalistic Methods Don't Work Here
7: Damn Lies, Statistics, and Doomsday
8: Personal Knowledge versus Media-Shaped Opinions
9: How Psychology Affects the Evaluation of Trends
10: Why Do We Hear Prophecies of Doom from Every Side?
Conclusion