Tables of Contents for The Skeptical Environmentalist

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Introduction

Part I. The Litany: 1.1 Things are getting better

1.2. Why do we hear so much bad news?

Part II. Human Welfare: 2.1. Measuring human welfare

2.2 Life expectancy and health

2.3. Food and hunger

2.4. Prosperity

2.5. Conclusion

Part III. Can Human Prosperity Continue?: 3.1 Are we living on borrowed time?

3.2. Will we have enough food

3.3. Forests - are we losing them?

3.4. Energy

3.5. Non-energy resources

3.6. Water

3.7. Conclusion

Part IV. Pollution: 4.1. Air pollution

4.2. Acid rain and forest death

4.3. Indoor air pollution

4.4. Allergies and asthma

4.5. Water pollution

4.6. Waste: running out of space?

4.7. Conclusion

Part V. Tomorrow's Problems: 5.1. Our chemical fears

5.2. Biodiversity

5.3. Global warming

Part VI. The real State of the World: 6.1. Predicament or progress?

Notes

Bibliography.