Weise, “90% of the Ocean’s Edible Species May Be Gone By 2048, Study
Finds,” USA Today, 11/3/2006; Juliet Eilperin, “U.S. Attempting to Reshape
Fishing Rules,” Washington Post, October 8, 2006; Chesapeake Research
Consortium. “Managed Fisheries of the Chesapeake Bay,”
chesapeake.org/FEP-ManagedFisheries.pdf, 11/2006.
27 Noel Perrin, “Who Needs the World When You Have Cable?” New York
Times Book Review, April 26, 1992.
28 Natural History Museum: “Seeds of Change” (exhibit, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C., 1992); Richard A. Falk, This Endangered Planet
(New York: Random House, 1971), 139; Jared Diamond, talk at Politics and
Prose (Washington, D.C.) 1/18/2006.
29 See Barry Weisberg, Beyond Repair (Boston: Beacon, 1971), 9.
30 “Sperm Counts Drop Over 50 Years,” Facts on File 52, no. 2706 (10/1/
1992): 743(1); Michael Castleman, “The Sperm Crisis,” Mother Earth News,
no. 83 (9/1983): 176-77. The best guess as to the cause of the sperm-count
drop may be disposable diapers that are too tight and overheat the testicles.
See, inter alia, Andrea Braslavsky, “Could Disposable Diapers Lead to
Infertility?” at AT&T Worldnet, dailynews.att.net, 9/28/2000. That’s a relief!
31 Joel Achenbach, “The Tempest,” Washington Post Magazine, 5/28/2006,
24.
32 Heilbroner, An Inquiry into the Human Prospect, 133.
33 David Donald, quoted by Paul Gagnon, “Why Study History?” Atlantic,
11/1988, 46.
34 Edward O. Wilson, “Is Humanity Suicidal?” New York Times Magazine,
5/30/1993, 24-29.
35 Clyde Haberman, “South Korea Goes from Wasteland to Woodland,” New
York Times, 7/7/1985, 6E.
36 London, Why Are They Lying to Our Children? 53. London must not have
read the endings of American history textbooks!
37 John Tierney, “Betting the Planet,” New York Times Magazine, 12/2/ 1990,
52-53, 75-81.
38 Jane Newitt makes this point in The Treatment of Limits-to-Growth Issues
in U.S. High School Textbooks (Croton-on-Hudson, NY: Hudson Institute,