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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Sabin, Paul, 1970-     Subjects     Ehrlich, Paul R.     Simon, Julian Lincoln, 1932-1998.     Environmental economics.     Environmental policy.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sabin, Paul, 1970-       by title:      The bet : Paul Ehrli...         MARC Display

The bet : Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and our gamble over Earth's future / Paul Sabin. by Sabin, Paul, 1970- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2013. Subjects Ehrlich, Paul R.   Simon, Julian Lincoln, 1932-1998.   Environmental economics.   Environmental policy. ISBN:  9780300176483 (hardback) 0300176481 (hardback) Description:  xv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public's imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted that rising populations would cause overconsumption, resource scarcity, and famine-with apocalyptic consequences for humanity. Simon optimistically countered that human welfare would flourish thanks to flexible markets, technological change, and our collective ingenuity. Simon and Ehrlich's debate reflected a deepening national conflict over the future of the planet. The Bet weaves the two men's lives and ideas together with the era's partisan political clashes over the environment and the role of government. In a lively narrative leading from the dawning environmentalism of the 1960s through the pivotal presidential contest between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and on into the 1990s, Paul Sabin shows how the fight between Ehrlich and Simon-between environmental fears and free-market confidence-helped create the gulf separating environmentalists and their critics today. Drawing insights from both sides, Sabin argues for using social values, rather than economic or biological absolutes, to guide society's crucial choices relating to climate change, the planet's health, and our own"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 333.7 Sa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 333.7 Sabin Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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