| Preface to the Third Edition |
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| Introduction |
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| Prologue: World Scientists' Warning to Humanity |
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An Introduction to Ethical Theory |
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Moral Argument and Ethical Theory |
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Distinguishing Moral and Empirical Claims |
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Justification, Explanation, Prediction, and Description |
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Moral Argument: The Interplay of Moral and Empirical Claims |
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7 | (4) |
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11 | (3) |
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Evaluating Ethical Theories |
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14 | (2) |
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Influential Ethical Ideas and Theories |
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From Ethical Egoism to Social Darwinism |
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16 | (2) |
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The Divine Command Theory |
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18 | (2) |
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20 | (4) |
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24 | (3) |
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Utilitarianism and Economic Theory |
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27 | (3) |
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30 | (3) |
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33 | (1) |
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34 | (3) |
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The Idea of a Unique Environmental Ethic |
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37 | (6) |
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Western Religious and Cultural Perspectives |
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43 | (71) |
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43 | (9) |
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The Historic Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis |
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52 | (6) |
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For God so Loved the World |
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58 | (4) |
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Judaism and the Environment |
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62 | (4) |
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Stewardship versus Exploitation |
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66 | (5) |
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71 | (18) |
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89 | (10) |
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Everyone Needs a Stone: Alternative Views of Nature |
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99 | (10) |
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge |
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109 | (2) |
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Why Bad Things Have Happened to Good Creatures |
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111 | (3) |
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114 | (60) |
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114 | (8) |
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Good Natured---The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals |
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122 | (13) |
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135 | (8) |
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The Case for Animal Rights |
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143 | (7) |
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150 | (13) |
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The Prospects for Consensus and Convergence in the Animal Rights Debate |
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163 | (6) |
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The Little Things That Run the World |
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169 | (3) |
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Sidelight: Parachuting Cats and Interconnectedness |
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172 | (2) |
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Constructing an Environmental Ethic |
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174 | (137) |
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The Broader, Biotic Community |
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174 | (85) |
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174 | (9) |
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On Being Morally Considerable |
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183 | (6) |
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Should Trees Have Standing?---Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects |
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189 | (12) |
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The Ethics of Respect for Nature |
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201 | (14) |
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215 | (9) |
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The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic |
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224 | (14) |
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Marine Environmental Ethics |
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238 | (2) |
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Integration or Reduction: Two Approaches to Environmental Values |
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240 | (19) |
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Deep Ecology and Social Ecology |
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259 | (20) |
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259 | (4) |
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263 | (5) |
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Self-Realization: An Ecological Approach to Being in the World |
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268 | (5) |
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Will Ecology Become ``The Dismal Science?'' |
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273 | (4) |
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Sidelight: Do What's Natural, You Say? |
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277 | (2) |
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279 | (32) |
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279 | (3) |
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The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism |
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282 | (14) |
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Development, Ecology, and Women |
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296 | (7) |
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How Feminist Is Ecofeminism? |
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303 | (8) |
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Economics, Ethics, and Ecology |
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311 | (140) |
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Letting the Market Decide |
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311 | (25) |
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311 | (7) |
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The Ethical Basis of the Economic View of the Environment |
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318 | (9) |
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At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic |
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327 | (9) |
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336 | (23) |
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336 | (5) |
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Cost--Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique |
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341 | (6) |
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Cost--Benefit Analysis Defended |
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347 | (3) |
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Sidelight: Cost-Benefit Analysis: Tool for All Seasons? |
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350 | (2) |
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Earth in the Balance Sheet |
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352 | (7) |
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From the Commons to Property |
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359 | (30) |
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359 | (5) |
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The Tragedy of the Commons |
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364 | (9) |
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373 | (1) |
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374 | (3) |
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Property Rights in Natural Resources |
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377 | (1) |
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Kristin Shrader-Frechette |
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Takings, Just Compensation, and the Environment |
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378 | (11) |
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Human Population and Pressure on ``Resources'' |
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389 | (30) |
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389 | (8) |
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An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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397 | (4) |
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Sidelight: If Earth Could Speak |
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401 | (1) |
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402 | (6) |
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Can the Supply of Natural Resources Really Be Infinite? Yes! |
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408 | (6) |
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Population, Poverty and the Local Environment |
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414 | (5) |
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Future Generations and Sustainability Questions |
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419 | (32) |
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419 | (9) |
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428 | (8) |
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Sidelight: The Nuclear Train to the Future |
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436 | (2) |
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Sustainability: An Economist's Perspective |
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438 | (5) |
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443 | (8) |
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Environmental Problems and Policies |
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451 | (174) |
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451 | (33) |
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451 | (8) |
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459 | (6) |
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465 | (4) |
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469 | (7) |
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476 | (8) |
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484 | (35) |
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484 | (7) |
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A Plant's-Eye View of the World |
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491 | (5) |
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496 | (2) |
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Brute-Force Genetic Engineering |
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498 | (4) |
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502 | (6) |
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Nature as the Measure for a Sustainable Agriculture |
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508 | (8) |
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516 | (3) |
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519 | (27) |
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519 | (2) |
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Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique |
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521 | (8) |
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Tropical Forests and Their Species: Going, Going...? |
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529 | (5) |
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The Mismanagement of the National Forests |
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534 | (9) |
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543 | (3) |
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546 | (41) |
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546 | (4) |
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550 | (5) |
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Consumption and the Environment |
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555 | (1) |
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Consumption as a Theme in the North--South Dialogue |
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556 | (3) |
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The Chainsaws of Greed: The Case of Pacific Lumber |
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559 | (12) |
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Why Shouldn't Corporations Be Socially Responsible? |
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571 | (4) |
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``I Am No Greenpeacer, But...'' or Environmentalism, Risk Communication, and the Lower Middle Class |
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575 | (12) |
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Sliding to Global Catastrophe |
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587 | (38) |
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587 | (8) |
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595 | (3) |
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The Case That the World Has Reached Limits |
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598 | (9) |
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The Climate-Change Debacle: The Perils of Politicizing Science |
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607 | (8) |
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615 | (5) |
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Climate Change Science The National Academy of Sciences |
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620 | (2) |
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Sidelight: Let's Transform the Military |
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622 | (3) |
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625 | (25) |
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625 | (3) |
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Strategic Monkeywrenching |
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628 | (4) |
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The Sea Shepherds: Bringing Justice to the High Seas |
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632 | (2) |
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An Apologia for Activism: Global Responsibility, Ethical Advocacy, and Environmental Problems |
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634 | (9) |
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Kristin Shrader-Frechette |
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Involuntary Simplicity: Changing Dysfunctional Habits of Consumption |
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643 | (5) |
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Sidelight: A Resistance Movement of One's Own |
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648 | (2) |
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Learning and Research Tools |
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650 | (1) |
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650 | (6) |
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656 | (1) |
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Internet and Other Environmental Resources |
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657 | (2) |
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