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Tables of Contents for Life's Adventure
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
ix
The media - the gatekeepers of ideas and the conduit for scares
ix
Key issues in the battle for ideas
xiii
Combating alarmism and making sensible policies
xvii
References
xx
Acknowledgements
xxi
Part One Junk Science-based Scares
1
30
Holes in the ozone theory
3
1
Is climate change a problem?
4
2
The balance of the ozone debate
6
2
Are we only half the men we used to be?
8
2
Is nothing worse than tobacco?
10
2
Rising fears about falling sperm counts
12
2
The great forest `rescue'
14
2
Genes, nuts and vaccines
16
2
Pesticides didn't kill Sir James
18
2
Ban Luddites, not chlorine
20
1
Farmyard follies
21
2
What's in a name? Emotional words obscure facts
23
2
Chernobyl's real victims
25
2
The retreat from scientific reason
27
4
Part Two How and Why Scares Develop
31
34
A new religion?
33
1
Coase's lighthouse
34
2
Balance and counterbalance
36
2
Lessons from Brent Spar
38
2
The search for safety
40
1
Shell shouldn't bow to environmentalists
41
2
Damp, but not doomsday
43
2
A clean water proposal that muddies the issue
45
2
Post-environmentalism
47
2
What some old bones in Britain can tell us
49
2
Cry wolf is what Greens do best
51
1
How the media short-change business
52
2
Stop the madness
54
3
Hysteria - a media-caused disease
57
1
Statistical snake-oil
58
3
Press release non-science
61
1
Unsafe at any price? Different standards for organic luvvies
62
3
Part Three Regulation and Rent-seeking
65
22
What am I bid?
67
1
Cambridge Water: What was missed
68
2
Catastrophe insurers warm to the debate
70
2
Government doesn't do science well either
72
2
The Marlboro Man can't make you smoke
74
3
Fuel fossils: extinction exaggerated
77
2
A tax scheme from the apartheid handbook
79
2
Canada leaves Greenpeace red-faced
81
3
Saving the problem - Green job maintenance
84
3
Part Four The New Elite: International Science Bureaucracies
87
32
Global warming: Apocalypse or hot air?
89
1
Global warming: Don't believe the hype
90
2
The folly of environmental directives
92
2
Rio set the bar too high
94
3
Business strategy gives away moral high ground
97
3
Harbingers of hysteria
100
2
The politicization of climate science
102
4
Make way for big environment
106
3
Another silly attack on a useful pesticide
109
2
Growing the Green bureaucracy
111
2
Global Greens
113
2
Elites prosper at UN POPs meeting
115
4
Part Five Trade-offs Not Solutions
119
28
Conservation through commerce
121
1
Better dead than bred
122
2
Sustainable use of wildlife in Africa
124
2
Guardians of Eden
126
1
Trading in rhino horn helps conservation
127
3
Don't demonize technology
130
1
Fear and precaution: A lethal mix?
131
1
The origins of virtue
132
2
Trial and error is better than trial without error
134
2
Allocating water: By market or bureaucracy?
136
2
Culling to be kind
138
3
Speechless in Seattle
141
2
Earth Report 2000
143
4
Index
147