1982), 13. She also criticized textbooks for bias in favor of the limits-to-
growth side of the debate, which I cannot confirm; the textbooks I examined do
not really treat environmental issues as a serious matter.
39 Faye Rice, “Who Scores Best on the Environment?” Fortune (7/26/1993):
- See also Debra Chasnoff ’s film on General Electric, Deadly Deception
(Boston: Infact, 1990). General Electric’s newer corporate mantra is “We
Bring Good Things to Life.”
40 Mike Tidwell, talk at Politics and Prose (Washington, D.C.): 8/30/2006;
Bill McKibben, “How Close to Catastrophe?” New York Review of Books,
11/16/2006.
41 Juliet Eilperin, “Growing Acidity of Oceans May Kill Corals,” Washington
Post, 7/5/2006.
42 “The Red List,” iucnredlist.org, as reported by Sam Cage, “16,000 Species
Said to Face Extinction” Associated Press, 05/01/2006,
cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp ; Jeremy Rifkin, “The Risks of Too Much
City,” Washington Post, 12/17/2006; William Burr and Jeffrey Kimball, eds.,
“Nixon White House Considered Nuclear Options Against North Vietnam,
Declassified Documents Reveal,” National Security Archive Electronic
Briefing Book No. 195, gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB195/index.htm
(7/31/2006).
43 Mishan, The Economic Growth Debate, Ch. 8.
44 On the Mayans, see Allen Chen, “Unraveling Another Mayan Mystery,”
Discover, 6/1987, 40-49; for the Canaries, see Alfred W. Crosby Jr.,
Ecological Imperialism (NewYork: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 80,
94-97.
45 Alfred W. Crosby Jr., “Demo-graphics and Ecology,” 1990, typescript,
citing Las Casas; John Varner and Jeanette Varner, Dogs of the Conquest
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983), 19- 20; Spanish letter quoted
in Kirkpatrick Sale, The Conquest of Paradise (New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
1990), 165.
46 Gregg Easterbrook, reply to letters about his “Some Convenient Truths,”
Atlantic Monthly, 11/2006, 21; Gretel Ehrlich, “Last Days of the Ice Hunters?”
National Geographic, 1/2006, 80, 84; Eugene Linden, “Why You Can’t Ignore
the Changing Climate,” Parade, 6/25/2006, 4.