The Environmental Debate, Third Edition

Contents xv

Document 147: Carl Safina on the Decline of Fishes (1995) ........................................... 197

Document 148: Edward Tenner on Shifting Liability (1996) ........................................... 198

Document 149: The Business Roundtable Objects to the Kyoto Protocol (1998) ............. 199

Document 150: Jeremy Rifkin on Biotechnology and the Environment (1998) ................ 201

Part VIII Politicizing the Environmental Debate, 2000–2017 .............................................. 203

Document 151: Norman E. Borlaug on Biotechnology and Antiscience (2000) ............... 206

Document 152: Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States

Army Corps of Engineers et al. (2001) .................................................. 210

A. The Case ......................................................................................... 210

B. The Majority Opinion, Delivered by Justice William Rehnquist ........ 210

Document 153: Bjorn Lomborg Questions the Prioritization of

Environmental Issues (2001) ................................................................. 212

Document 154: Charles W. Schmidt on Electronic Waste (2002) .................................... 214

Document 155: Mendocino County Ordinance Prohibiting the Propagation,

Cultivation, Raising, and Growing of Genetically Modified

Organisms (2004) ................................................................................. 216

A. The Ordinance ................................................................................ 216

B. Ballot Statement Supporting Passage of the Ordinance ..................... 217

Document 156: Michael Schallenberger and Ted Nordhaus Proclaim the Death of

Environmentalism (2004) ..................................................................... 217

Document 157: Bruce Babbitt Proposes a New Approach to Federal Land-Use

Planning (2005) .................................................................................... 221

Document 158: Myron Ebell on the Endangered Species Act and Private

Property Rights (2005) ......................................................................... 223

Document 159: Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources

Agreement (2005) ................................................................................. 226

Document 160: Al Gore on the Politicization of Global Warming (2006) ....................... 228