| THE ENVIRONMENTAL ENDGAME Mainstream Economics, Ecological Disaster, and Human Survival Robert L. Nadeau New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-8135-3812-9 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-8135-3812-2 | 211pp. | HC | $24.95 | |
| Page 57: | "Parts of machines can be separated and reassembled and the machine will run normally." |
| Vocabulary: "reattached" would be a better choice. |
| Page 61: | "...the evolution of the bodies and brains of our ancestors resulted in the capacity to acquire and use fully complex language systems." |
| This use of the adverb "fully" seems confusing to me. How can we know if any language is "fully complex"? Is contemporary American English fully complex? Ain't (sic) it capable of improvement? To avoid a long discussion, I'll just say (as Pete Seeger sings) "English is Cra-a-a-zy." |
| Page 68: | "These feedbacks culminated in a system for intensive food production comprised of three cereals that were the main source of carbohydrates, four pulses that provided some protein, and four domestic animals that were the principal sources of protein." |
| Wrong word: "pulses". (But I have no idea what the right word is.) |
| Page 71: | "...and the world's food supply, As E. O. Wilson puts it..." |
| Capitalization incorrect: S/B "as". |
| Page 89: | "...the language used by Jefferson in the opening sentences of the Declaration of Independence: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.' " |
| Inaccurate quote: S/B "with certain unalienable Rights". Also, the comma after "Liberty" should be deleted. (See e.g. U.S. History or Early America .) |
| Page 104: | "If matter, they argued, is immutable, then the production of goods and commodities cannot alter or change the stuff out of which goods and commodities are made." |
| Word choice: "immutable" seems wrong. I don't think any economist would argue that matter is immutable — that it cannot be changed in form. |
| Page 146: | Inside quote at top of page: "...free trade is less an economic strategy than a moral degree." |
| Word choice or transcription error: S/B "decree". |
| Page 162: | "President George W. Bush is one of the prime examples in American politics of a true believer in the market or Washington consensus who conflates the natural laws of economics and with the laws of God." |
| There's a word missing, but I can only guess what it ought to be. |
| Page 166: | "...and since belief in their actual existence is effectively undermining efforts to revolve the crisis in the global environment..." |
| Probably a typo or transcription error: S/B "resolve". |
| Page 182: | "For example, the properties in salt, or sodium chloride, are novel and emergent, and do not exist in sodium or chloride per se." |
| S/B "chlorine". |
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