leaders ridiculed the American position.
14 Donella H. Meadows, “A Look at the Future,” in Robin Clarke, ed., Notes
for the Future (New York: Universe Books, 1976), 63; Donella H. Meadows,
correspondence, 11/15/1993.
15 General Social Survey, “If you were to consider your life in general these
days, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole.... ”
webapp .icpsr.umich.edu/GSS/, 11/2006.
16 Donella H. Meadows et al., The Limits to Growth (New York: Universe
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17 Robert L. Heilbroner, An Inquiry into the Human Prospect (New York:
Norton, 1974), 13.
18 Nisbet, History of the Idea of Progress , 8.
19 Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West (New York: Modern Library,
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20 Colin Turnbull, The Human Cycle (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983),
21.
21 Stephen Jay Gould, Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes (New York: Norton,
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22 Oil imports in 1980 were 63 percent greater than in 1973, according to the
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1993 (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of
the Census, 1993).
23 Mike Feinsilber and William B. Mead, American Averages (Garden City,
NY: Doubleday, 1980), 277; see also Matthew Wald, “After 20 Years,
America’s Foot Is Still on the Gas,” New York Times, 10/17/1993.
24 Mishan, The Economic Growth Debate , 53. See also Warren Johnson, The
Future Is Not What It Used to Be (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1985), 22-24.
25 See Garrett Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Science 162 (1968):
1243-48; and Garrett Hardin and John Baden, eds., Managing the Commons
(San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1977).
26 B. D. Ayres Jr., “Hard Times for Chesapeake’s Oyster Harvest,” New York
Times, October 15, 1993; David E. Pitt, “U.N. Talks Combat Threat to
Fishery,” New York Times, 7/25/1993; Pitt, “Despite Gaps, Data Leave Little
Doubt That Fish Are in Peril,” New York Times, August 3, 1993; Elizabeth