Taking sides : clashing views on controversial environmental issues / selected, edited, and with introductions by Thomas A. Easton.

Contents;

Part 1: Environmental philosophy
Issue 1. Is the precautionary principle a sound basis for international policy?
Issue 2. Is sustainable development compatible with human welfare?
Issue 3: Should a price be put on the goods and services provided by the world's ecosystems?

Part 2: Principles versus politics
Issue 4: Is biodiversity overprotected?
Issue 5: Should environment policy attempt to cure environmental racism?
Issue 6: Can pollution rights trading effectively control environmental problems?
Issue 7: Do environmentalists overstate their case?

Part 3: Energy issues
Issue 8: Should the arctic national wildlife refuge be opened to oil drilling?
Issue 9: Should society act now to forestall global warming?
Issue 10: Will hydrogen end our fossil-fuel addiction?
Issue 11: Should existing power plants be required to install state-of-the-art pollution controls?
Issue 12: Is it time to revive nuclear power?

Part 4: Food and population
Issue 13: Is limiting population growth a key factor in protecting the global environment?
Issue 14: Is genetic engineering an environmentally sound way to increase food production?
Issue 15: Are marine reserves needed to protect global fisheries?

Part 5: Toxic chemicals
Issue 16: Should DDT be banned worldwide?
Issue 17: Do environmental hormone mimics pose a potentially serious health threat?
Issue 18: Is the superfund program successfully protecting the environment from hazardous waste?
Issue 19: Should the United States continue to focus plans for permanent nuclear waste disposal exclusively at Yucca mountain?
Issue 20: Should the military be exempt from environmental regulations?
Issue 21: Is additional federal oversight needed for the construction of LNG import facilities

Index : p. 395-401.