The End of Doom (52 page)

Fettweis, Christopher

fisheries

floods

food

aid

labeling

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

food production.
See also
biotech crops; pesticides

biofuel instead of

canola

cassava

commodity prices and

consumption and efficiencies in

corn

dairy industry

doomsayers

famine predictions and

fertility rates and

fertilizer for

frost damage and

future of

government subsidies

Green Revolution

herbicides

hormones in

innovation

meat industry

organic

potatoes

precautionary principle on

rice

salmon

soybeans

statistics

water used for

wheat

forests

biotech trees

deforestation and reforestation

novel

Forrester, Jay

Forster, Piers

fracking

free-market capitalism

Friends of the Earth

Fukushima nuclear disaster

fusion reactors

Gaines, Steven

Galor, Oded

Gardner, Delworth

Garrett, Banning

genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
See
biotech crops

geoengineering

Giardina, Christian

glacial melting

Gleason, Henry

global warming.
See
climate change

Glover, Anne

glyphosate herbicide

GMOs (genetically modified organisms).
See
biotech crops

Golden Rice

Gonzalo, Julio A.

Goodstein, David

Gore, Al

Gould, Stephen Jay

government

biotech regulation proposals by

civilization and societal collapse theories and

coal gasification failure in

DDT ban by

new energy consensus support by

oil corruption and ownership by

overbureaucratization of

subsidies

water misallocation by

Grantham, Jeremy

Green, Rhys

Green Revolution

greenhouse gases.
See also
carbon emissions; climate change

Greenpeace

Grund, Thomas

Gurian-Sherman, Doug

Hardin, Garrett

Harte, John

Harte, Mary Ellen

Hayek, Friedrich

health.
See also
disease

biotechnology for

birth control pills

birth defects

coffee drinking

DDT creation for

EMFs and

endocrine disruption and

false positives in

female

male

nanotechnology for

obesity and

pathological science and

penile deformation

pesticides and

pharmaceuticals and

politicization of

precautionary principle positioned for

reproductive problems

saccharin and

sperm

synthetic biology for

Heinberg, Richard

herbicides

Heritage Foundation

Hickey, Joseph

HIV/AIDS

Holdren, John

homeopathy

Hooker, Joseph

Hopfenberg, Russell

hormones, in meat and dairy.
See also
endocrine disrupting chemicals

Howard, Ted

Hubbert, M. King

Hueper, Wilhelm

hurricanes

hydraulic fracturing

hypospadias

IEA.
See
International Energy Agency

IIASA.
See
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Iler, Stuart

income increase

climate adaptation and

climate mitigation and

fertility rate decline and

intergenerational equity and

open-access social orders and

trend overview

India

biotech crops in

climate change negotiations with

farmer suicide in

fertility rate and life expectancy in

Green Revolution in

oil consumption patterns for

Orissa cyclone

Industrial Revolution

industrialization

commodity super-cycles and

fertility rate decline and

innovation trial and error in

pollution correlation to

Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Inhofe, James

innovation

cognitive biases against

elitist resistance to

fertility rate decline and

free-market capitalist drive for

population projections and

positive possibilities with

precautionary resistance to

trial and error for

innovation sectors and types

additive manufacturing

autonomous vehicles

biofuel

biotech crops

cellular

climate geoengineering

DDT

electric vehicle

energy, clean

energy efficiency

food production

Green Revolution

lasers

metal

nanotechnology

nuclear power

oil

pharmaceutical

resource efficiency

solar power

insulin

Intellectual Ventures

intergenerational equity

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

on climate adaptation

on climate mitigation

on extinction

on natural disasters

on natural gas efficiency

on ocean acidification

on temperature increase

on water privatization

International Energy Agency (IEA)

International Food Policy Research Institute

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

International Monetary Fund

International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Ioannidis, John

IPCC.
See
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Iran

ITIF.
See
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

IUCN.
See
International Union for the Conservation of Nature

Jacks, David

Jacobson, Mark

Jaggard, Keith

Jenkins, Martin

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Kahan, Dan

Kazman, Sam

Kennedy, Ted

Kershen, Drew

Klare, Michael

Klein, Naomi

Kloor, Keith

Knobloch, Kevin

Kricher, John

Kron, Thomas

Kyoto Protocol

Lackey, Robert

Lackner, Klaus

Langmuir, Irving

lasers

Leffall, LaSalle D., Jr.

Lehmijoki, Ulla

leukemia

Lewis, Nicholas

liberalism

Liebig, Justus von

life expectancy

aging, cancer and

DDT, cancer and

economic freedom and

fertility rate and

The Limits to Growth

Lincer, Jeffrey

lithium

Lockheed Martin

Lovejoy, Thomas

Low, Bobbi

lung cancer

Lutz, Wolfgang

MacArthur, Robert

mad cow disease

Maddison, Angus

malaria

male health

Malthus, Thomas Robert

manufacturing, additive

Marris, Emma

Marx, Karl

Mascaro, Joe

Maugeri, Leonardo

McCauley, Douglas

McKibben, Bill

meat industry

metals

commodity prices of

consumption plateau

reserve depletion

methane

Mexico

Miller, Georgia

minerals

commodity prices of

geological studies on

Mokyr, Joel

monopolies

Monsanto

Roundup

Montague, Peter

Mooney, Chris

moral restraint

Morano, Marc

mortality rates

from cancer

coal and nuclear comparison of

fertility rates and

from infectious disease

from natural disasters

water access and

Motavalli, Jim

Muir, John

M
ü
ller, Paul

Mu
ñ
oz, F
é
lix-Fernando

Murtin, Fabrice

Muufri

Mwanawasa, Levy

Myers, Norman

Myhrvold, Nathan

Naam, Ramez

nanotechnology

NASA reports

National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

on biotech crops

on climate change mitigation

on DDT

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

natural disasters

natural gas

natural selection

natural states theory

nature

doomsayer ideals of

myth of balance in

myth of pristine nature

novel ecosystems

restoration of

Nelson, Robert

neodymium

neo-Malthusianism

Neumayer, Eric

New Harvest

Newell, Richard

El Ni
ñ
o Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

nitrogen fertilizer

nitrous oxide

NOAA.
See
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Nordhaus, William

North, Douglass

Norton, Seth

novel ecosystems

nuclear power

Obama, Barack

obesity

Ocampo, Daniel M.

Ocampo, Jos
é
Antonio

ocean

acidification

biodiversity protection

cloud whitening from

heat storage in

OECD.
See
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

oil

Arab and Iranian crises

consumption patterns

doomsayer predictions on

government mismanagement of

innovations

prices

reserves

subsidies cuts

Olson, Mancur

Oostvaardersplassen

OPEC.
See
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

open-access social orders

organic crops

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

O'Sullivan, John

ozone holes

Paddock, Paul

Paddock, William

Pakistan, Green Revolution in

Palokangas, Tapio

pancreatic cancer

Park, Robert

pathological science

pattern searching

PCBs.
See
polychlorinated biphenyls

penile deformation

pesticides.
See also
DDT

biotech crops and

pros and cons of

superpests and

petroleum.
See
oil

pharmaceuticals

Philippines

Phillips, Ronald

phosphorous

Pielke, Roger, Jr.

pigs, biotech

Pimentel, David

Pimm, Stuart

Pinstrup-Andersen, Per

Pleistocene Rewilding proposal

Plewis, Ian

plutonium

politicization

pollution.
See also
chemicals; emissions

cancer and

climate sensitivity and

income correlation to

polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)

population.
See also
fertility rates

doomsayers

Ehrlich on

famine predictions and

innovation and

Malthus on

natural disaster damage and

neo-Malthusians on

projections

urbanization and

The Population Bomb
(Ehrlich)

potassium oxide

potatoes

Pratt, Wallace

Prebisch, Raul

precautionary principle

adoption inevitability

burden of proof for

case example dangers of

cognitive biases on

false safety of

foresight fault of

formation of

innovation resisted by

maxim of

public health positioning of

trial without error fault of

Princip, Gavrilo

Prius

Pseudomonas syringae

puberty, early onset

Radetzki, Marian

Ratcliffe, D. A.

Reason Foundation

renewable energy

adoption proposal

cost reduction for clean and

power requirements and cost of

solar

wind

reproduction.
See
fertility rates

resource depletion.
See also
oil

commodity price decline and

commodity price super-cycles and

doomsayers

for electric vehicles

of fertilizer

innovation for

The Limits to Growth
projections on

of metals

natural states theory and

sustainable development for

of water

Reynard, David

rice

Rifkin, Jeremy

risk minimization.
See
precautionary principle

Robinson, James

Rockefeller Foundation

Romer, Paul

Roundup

Rousseau, Denis

Ruckelshaus, William

saccharin

Sadanandan, Anoop

Sagoff, Mark

salmon, biotech

Sanyal, Sanjeev

Sapsford, David

Saudi Arabia

Sax, Dov

Schindler, J
ö
rg

Schlesinger, James

Schmeiser, Percy

science

first ban on

literacy and polarization on

pathological

politicization of

sea-level rise

Sedjo, Roger

Seffrin, John

Segerfeldt, Fredrik

self-driving vehicles

S
é
ralini, Gilles-
É
ric

Shapiro, Arthur