The Environmental Endgame: Mainstream Economics, Ecological Disaster, and Human Survival

1. E. O. Wilson, The Future of Life (New York: Knopf, 2002), p. 28.

2. Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1988), p. 123.

1. Peter Behr, “A Car for the Distant Future,” Washington Post, March 9, 2003.

2. Union of Concerned Scientists, “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity,” No- vember 18, 1992, http://deoxy.org/sciwarn.htm.

3. United Nations World Development Report, March 2003; Rick Weiss, “Threats Posed by Water Scarcity Detailed: U.N. Report Warns of Looming Crisis,” Washington Post, March 5, 2003; “Nor Any Drop to Drink,” Economist, March 6, 2003; Rick Weiss, “Water Scarcity Prompts Scientists to Look Down,” Washington Post, March 10, 2003.

4. Paul H. Ehrlich and John P. Holdren, “Impact of Population Growth,” Science 171 (1971): 1212–1217.

5. E. O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (New York: Knopf, 1998), p. 262.

6. The most comprehensive summary of data on the global environment is provided by the Worldwatch Institute. A good summary can be found in State of the World and Vital Signs: Trends That Are Shaping Our Future (New York: Norton, 1997).

7. Philip P. Pan, “Scientists Issue Dire Prediction on Warming,” Washington Post, Janu- ary 22, 2001; Craig S. Smith, “150 Nations Start Groundwork for Global Warming Pro- jects,” New York Times, January 18, 2001.

8. Reed F. Noss and Robert L. Peters, Endangered Species: A Status Report of Amer- ica’s Vanishing Habitat and Wildlife (Washington, D.C.: Defenders of Wildlife, 1995); Reed F. Noss, T. LaRoe III, and Michael Scott, Endangered Species of the United States: A Preliminary Assessment of Loss and Degradation (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Biological Service, 1995).

9. E. O. Wilson, The Future of Life (New York: Knopf, 2002), pp. 98–99.

10. “The Least Developed Countries Report 2002,” Escaping the Poverty Trap (New York: United Nations, 2002).

11. Robert Levine, “The Sims Online,” Wired Magazine, November 11, 2002.

12. NSF Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education, Complex Environmental Systems: Synthesis for Earth, Life, and Society in the 21st Century (Wash- ington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003).

13. NSF Advisory Committee, Complex Environmental Systems, pp. 1–20.

1. David Stipp, “Pentagon Says Global Warming Is a Critical Security Issue,” For- tune Magazine, January 26, 2004.

2. Peter Swartz and Doug Randall, “An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its

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