Taking sides :   clashing views on controversial environmental issues /  
 Clashing views on environmental issues. 
selected, edited, and with introductions by Thomas A. Easton.  
 - 11th edition  
 - Dubuque, Iowa :  McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series,  c2006. 
 - xxvii, 401 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Contents;<br/><br/>Part 1: Environmental philosophy <br/>Issue 1. Is the precautionary principle a sound basis for international policy?<br/>Issue 2. Is sustainable development compatible with human welfare?<br/>Issue 3: Should a price be put on the goods and services provided by the world's ecosystems?<br/><br/>Part 2: Principles versus politics <br/>Issue 4: Is biodiversity overprotected? <br/>Issue 5: Should environment policy attempt to cure environmental racism?<br/>Issue 6: Can pollution rights trading effectively control environmental problems?<br/>Issue 7: Do environmentalists overstate their case?<br/><br/>Part 3: Energy issues <br/>Issue 8: Should the arctic national wildlife refuge be opened to oil drilling?<br/>Issue 9: Should society act now to forestall global warming?<br/>Issue 10: Will hydrogen end our fossil-fuel addiction? <br/>Issue 11: Should existing power plants be required to install state-of-the-art pollution controls?<br/>Issue 12: Is it time to revive nuclear power?<br/><br/>Part 4: Food and population <br/>Issue 13: Is limiting population growth a key factor in protecting the global environment? <br/>Issue 14: Is genetic engineering an environmentally sound way to increase food production?<br/>Issue 15: Are marine reserves needed to protect global fisheries?<br/><br/>Part 5: Toxic chemicals <br/>Issue 16: Should DDT be banned worldwide? <br/>Issue 17: Do environmental hormone mimics pose a potentially serious health threat?<br/>Issue 18: Is the superfund program successfully protecting the environment from hazardous waste?<br/>Issue 19: Should the United States continue to focus plans for permanent nuclear waste disposal exclusively at Yucca mountain?<br/>Issue 20: Should the military be exempt from environmental regulations?<br/>Issue 21: Is additional federal oversight needed for the construction of LNG import facilities <br/><br/> 
<br/><br/>Index : p. 395-401. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780073514413 0073514411 
 = Taking sides. Clashing views on environmental issues 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010207597 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Environmental policy--Periodicals.<br/>Environmental protection--Periodicals.<br/>Environmental ethics--Periodicals.<br/>Environmental ethics.<br/>Environmental policy.<br/>Environmental protection.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Periodicals.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.7  / TAK