The Environmental Debate, Third Edition

Notes

Introduction

1. See Jane Lubchenko, “Entering the Century of the Environment: A New Social Contract for Sci-
   ence,” Science 279 (January 23, 1998): 492.


2. Critias by Plato; Translated by Benjamin Jowett; http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/critiias.html


3. Robert Famighetti, ed., World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1999 (Mahwah, NJ: Primedia, 1998), p.
   590. Other sources estimate that the world population reached one billion between 1775 and 1800.


4. http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population.


5. http://www.census.gov/population/population profile.


6. http://www.eia.gov/International energy consumption, updated Feb. 16, 2017.


7. http://www.eia.doe.gov/U.S. Energy Consumption by Energy Source.


8. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.


9. See, for example, Madeline Bodin, “Freeing the River,” Nature Conservancy, Summer 2010,
   pp. 33-41.


10. Richard Kerr, “Ocean Acidification Unprecedented, Unsettling,” Science, Vol. 328 (June 18, 2010):
    1500-1.


11. Jocelyn C. Zuckerman, “Oil Barrens,” Audubon Magazine, Fall 2016, pp. 24-31.

Part I

1. Most estimates for the first human migration across the Bering Strait range from about 11,000 to
   14,000 years ago (from which time there is actual evidence of human settlement in both North and