BRAIN FOOD TABLE OF CONTENTS
Jay Hanson
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BRAIN FOOD TABLE OF CONTENTS
* "a kind of Pontius Pilate feeling" - by Jay Hanson, 04/01/97
abstract:
In this essay, I examine the economic model of "rational man"
and how the model legitimizes prevailing public policy.
"Rational man" supposedly weighs the important, known
variables and then makes make that decision which is most
likely to achieve the desired end (the greatest "utility").
Thus, we can say that public policy is founded on the notion
that people calculate the utility of each decision, somewhat
like a computer.
Phillip Morris:
"Smoking is a personal choice, and so is quitting."
But modern cognitive science has shown that people do not
make decisions by calculating the utility of each
decision. Thus, economic "rational man" is a fraud that
leaves the public exposed to ongoing economic and
political exploitation by corporate media experts.
Moreover, this fraud provides economists and political
leaders with effective "moral cover", or in the words of
Adolph Eichmann, "a kind of Pontius Pilate feeling" that
leaves them free of all guilt for their dirty deeds.
http://www.dieoff.org/page103.htm
* KNOW THYSELF - A Report of the Dominant Animal Life on the
Third Planet: Executive Summary, by YaJ, January 24, 1997.
http://www.dieoff.org/page89.htm
* THE FATAL FREEDOM (the Tragedy of the Commons), by Jay
Hanson, January 3, 1997.
http://www.dieoff.org/page79.htm
* THERMODYNAMICS AND THE SUSTAINABILITY OF FOOD PRODUCTION, by
Jay Hanson, November 4, 1996. 4/12/97.
http://www.dieoff.org/page65.htm
* A MODEST PROPOSAL TO SAVE THE WORLD is the only possible way
the author could see to avoid die-off and possibly die-out.
http://www.dieoff.org/index.html
* THE INDUSTRIAL RELIGION draws a parallel between the
churchmen who fought against the Copernican Revolution and
the modern economic "growthmen".
http://www.dieoff.org/page2.htm
* CAPITALISM AGAINST DEMOCRACY gives an introduction to
systems, feedback, THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS, carrying
capacity, and shows how our economic system has come to
dominate our political system.
http://www.dieoff.org/page4.htm
* DEAD. WRONG. Is a short essay on the fundamental errors of
industrial society. Also included are some references for
OZONE DEPLETION and GLOBAL WARMING.
http://www.dieoff.org/page6.htm
* WHERE WILL IT END? by Jay Hanson.
http://www.dieoff.org/page34.htm
* SYSTEMS CRASH provides three different sources-using three
different data sets-showing a worldwide ecosystem crash
around the year 2030. This file includes a table showing
THE COLLAPSE OF THE WORLD'S FISHERIES, an article on FISH
FARMING, a short review on WHO WILL FEED CHINA, a press
release on THE EARTH'S CARRYING CAPACITY, a clip from THE
COMING ANARCHY, and a discussion of NPP.
http://www.dieoff.org/page5.htm
* CORPORATE RULE gives a short history of the modern
corporation and describes its essential functions. It also
contains a book review of WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD
by David Korten.
http://www.dieoff.org/page3.htm
* FREE TRADE - NAFTA - WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
http://www.dieoff.org/page77.htm
* BEYOND OIL describes how oil relates to our economy and what
will happen as it is depleted.
http://www.dieoff.org/page20.htm
* THE POPULATION EXPLOSION is from Paul and Anne Ehirlich. This
is also where to find JULIAN SIMON'S BET and HIS ULTIMATE
RESOURCE.
http://www.dieoff.org/page27.htm
* FOOD, LAND, POPULATION and the U.S. ECONOMY-EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
by David Pimentel of Cornell University and Mario Giampietro
Istituto of Nazionale della Nutrizione, Rome. Executive
Summary Released November 21, 1994
http://www.dieoff.org/page40.htm
* THE COMING ANARCHY by Robert D. Kaplan, The Atlantic Monthly,
February 1994. Quicktime Movie of Dead Babies Being Thrown
Into a Dump Truck CNN, November 1996 [Download the
Quicktime Movie Player from Apple]
http://www.dieoff.org/page67.htm
* IMMIGRATION: NO. 1 IN U.S. GROWTH New Look Shows Greater Role
in 1970-90 Population Increase, by Roy Beck (1991-1992)
http://www.dieoff.org/page54.htm
* Get Ready for Another Oil Shock by L.F. Ivanhoe, February,
1997.
http://www.dieoff.org/page90.htm
* An exploratory model of the impact of rapid climate change on
the world food situation, by Grechen C. Daily and Paul R.
Ehrlich (1990)
http://www.dieoff.org/page102.htm
* Socioeconomic Equity: A Critical Element in Sustainability,
by Gretchen C. Daily & Paul R. Ehrlich (Feb, 1995)
http://www.dieoff.org/page101.htm
* Foreclosing the future, by Gretchen C. Daily (Nov. 1995)
http://www.dieoff.org/page100.htm
* Optimum Human Population Size, by Gretchen C. Daily
http://www.dieoff.org/page99.htm
* Response to Bartlett and Lytwak (1995): Population and
Immigration Policy in the United States, by Anne H. Ehrlich
Paul R. Ehrlich
http://www.dieoff.org/page98.htm
* Rewards of Pejoristic Thinking, by Garrett Hardin (1977)
http://www.dieoff.org/page97.htm
* Ethical Implications of Carrying Capacity, by Garrett Hardin
(1977)
http://www.dieoff.org/page96.htm
* The Tragedy of the Commons (the original) , by Garrett Hardin
(1968)
http://www.dieoff.org/page95.htm
* Christianity and Evolutionary Ethics , by Patricia A.
Williams (June 1996)
http://www.dieoff.org/page94.htm
* Chronic Famine and the Immorality of Food Aid , by Joseph
Fletcher (1991)
http://www.dieoff.org/page91.htm
* Hubbert Center Dedication Newsletter
http://www.dieoff.org/page92.htm
* STEADY-STATE ECONOMICS: A Catechism of Growth Fallacies, by
Herman Daly (1991).
http://www.dieoff.org/page88.htm
* Three General Policies to Achieve Sustainability ,
by Robert Costanza (1994).
http://www.dieoff.org/page87.htm
* Sustainable Development. Conventional versus Emergent
Alternative Wisdom, by David Korten (1996).
http://www.dieoff.org/page86.htm
* Future world oil supplies: There is a finite limit.
Ivanhoe on Hubbert (1995).
http://www.dieoff.org/page85.htm
* Renewable Energy: Economic and Environmental Issues, by
David Pimentel, G. Rodrigues, T. Wane, R. Abrams, K.
Goldberg, H. Staecker, E. Ma, L. Brueckner, L. Trovato, C.
Chow, U. Govindarajulu, and S. Boerke.
http://www.dieoff.org/page84.htm
* HUMAN APPROPRIATION OF THE PRODUCTS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS by
Peter Vitousek, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich and Pamela
Matson (1986).
http://www.dieoff.org/page83.htm
* THE WORLD'S MOST POLYMORPHIC SPECIES: Carrying capacity
transgressed two ways, by William Catton (June 1987).
http://www.dieoff.org/page81.htm
* THE HEAT IS ON: The warming of the world's climate
sparks a blaze of denial by Ross Gelbspan (12/95).
http://www.dieoff.org/page82.htm
* THE INTRODUCTION, INCREASE, AND CRASH OF REINDEER
ON ST. MATTHEW ISLAND - by David R. Klein (April, 1968).
http://www.dieoff.org/page80.htm
* The Patch Disturbance Species - by John Logan, Jan. 2, 1997.
http://www.dieoff.org/page78.htm
* Rural Rwanda Faces Uneasy Balance of Fear as Refugees Return
New York Times, December 26, 1996.
http://www.dieoff.org/page76.htm
* Science Summit" on World Population: A Joint Statement by 58
of the World's Scientific Academies.
http://www.dieoff.org/page75.htm
* URBAN DYNAMICS a few quotes from Jay W. Forrester.
http://www.dieoff.org/page23.htm
* SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING: Resource Load Carrying
Capacity and Kphase Technology, by Peter Hartley (1993)
http://www.dieoff.org/page74.htm
* HEALTH IN THE HOT ZONE How would global warming affect
humans? By Richard Monastersky (April, 1996)
http://www.dieoff.org/page70.htm
* MONEY AND MAGIC A review of H.C. Binswanger's Money and Magic
(A Critique of the Modern Economy in Light of Goethe's
Faust) University of Chicago Press. by Herman Daly (Winter,
1996)
http://www.dieoff.org/page71.htm
* National Security Study Memorandum 200 April 24, 1974
http://www.dieoff.org/page72.htm
* The 1972 Rockefeller Commission Report on U. S. Population,
July, 1969
http://www.dieoff.org/page73.htm
* OUR PERPETUAL GROWTH UTOPIA by Fred Charles Ikle (1994)
http://www.dieoff.org/page68.htm
* THE TIGHTENING CONFLICT: POPULATION, ENERGY USE, AND THE
ECOLOGY OF AGRICULTURE, by Mario Giampietro and David
Pimentel (1994)
http://www.dieoff.org/page69.htm
* RS AND NAS STATEMENT is the official 1992 statement
of the Royal Society and the National Academy of Sciences.
http://www.dieoff.org/page7.htm
* WORLD SCIENTISTS' WARNING TO HUMANITY is from the Union of
Concerned Scientists in 1992.
http://www.dieoff.org/page8.htm
* RACHEL'S HAZARDOUS WASTE NEWS #380 (This is an excellent
newsletter.)
http://www.dieoff.org/page9.htm
* UNSUSTAINABILITY: A CONSENSUS is a short piece by Paul Ekins
about unsustainability.
http://www.dieoff.org/page10.htm
* WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE GDP is a description of the Genuine
Progress Indicator-GPI.
http://www.dieoff.org/page11.htm
* ELEVEN INHERENT RULES OF CORPORATE BEHAVIOR is a short essay
by Jerry Mander.
http://www.dieoff.org/page12.htm
* HUMAN CARRYING CAPACITY DEFINED defines "carrying capacity".
http://www.dieoff.org/page13.htm
* THE LANGUAGE OF ECOLOGY defines "overshoot", crash" and
"die-off".
http://www.dieoff.org/page14.htm
* OVERSHOOT describes various forms of "denial".
http://www.dieoff.org/page15.htm
* BIFURCATIONS discusses the possibility of fundamental social
change.
http://www.dieoff.org/page16.htm
* Energy, Entropy, Economics, and Ecology defines "entropy" and
how it relates to the economy.
http://www.dieoff.org/page17.htm
* REVERSIBILITY asserts that according to the Laws of
Thermodynamics, reversibility is impossible.
http://www.dieoff.org/page18.htm
* OPEN, CLOSED, AND ISOLATED SYSTEMS are defined.
http://www.dieoff.org/page19.htm
* ELECTRONIC HEROIN is about the addictive qualities of
television.
http://www.dieoff.org/page21.htm
* TV MUTANTS is about how television alters the human brain.
http://www.dieoff.org/page22.htm
* BRAINWASHING is about how television influences human
actions.
http://www.dieoff.org/page24.htm
* LIMITS TO GROWTH discusses the Club of Rome's seminal work.
http://www.dieoff.org/page25.htm
* POSITIVE FEEDBACK is an example of the catastrophic view.
http://www.dieoff.org/page26.htm
* THE CORNUCOPIAN FALLACIES by Lindsey Grant (1992)
http://www.dieoff.org/page45.htm
* ESA Passes Resolution on Human Population from the
Ecological Society of America (1994)
http://www.dieoff.org/page42.htm
* TOO MANY RICH PEOPLE: Weighing Relative Burdens on the
Planet, by Paul Ehrlich (1994)
http://www.dieoff.org/page43.htm
* FULL HOUSE is a Worldwatch book review.
http://www.dieoff.org/page28.htm
* THE LAST OASIS is a Worldwatch book review.
http://www.dieoff.org/page29.htm
* NET LOSS is a Worldwatch book review.
http://www.dieoff.org/page30.htm
* THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE is an alternative to cost/benefit
analysis.
http://www.dieoff.org/page31.htm
* WARREN CHRISTOPHER ON U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL DIPLOMACY (1996)
http://www.dieoff.org/page18.htm
* UNDERWEIGHTING OF BASE-RATE INFORMATION REFLECTS IMPORTANT
DIFFICULTIES PEOPLE HAVE WITH PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE
by Robert M. Ham (1994)
http://www.dieoff.org/page19.htm
* THE 4P APPROACH TO DEALING WITH SCIENTIFIC UNCERTAINTY
by Robert Costanza and Laura Cornwell (1992)
http://www.dieoff.org/page33.htm
* HOW TO INFLUENCE FERTILITY: The Experience So Far,
by John R. Weeks (1990)
http://www.dieoff.org/page35.htm
* SUSTAINABLE GROWTH: An Impossibility Theorem, by Herman
E. Daly (1993)
http://www.dieoff.org/page37.htm
* URBAN DYNAMICS a short clip from a book by Jay Forrester
(1969)
http://www.dieoff.org/page23.htm
* THE NEED FOR TRANSCENDENCE IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD a short
essay by By Vaclav Havel (1994)
http://www.dieoff.org/page38.htm
* LAWS, HYPOTHESES, OBSERVATIONS AND PREDICTIONS RELATING TO
SUSTAINABILITY from Al Bartlett (1994)
http://www.dieoff.org/page39.htm
* FOOD, LAND, POPULATION and the U.S. ECONOMY-FULL REPORT by
David Pimentel of Cornell University and Mario Giampietro
Istituto of Nazionale della Nutrizione, Rome. November 21,
1994
http://www.dieoff.org/page55.htm
* CONSTRAINTS ON THE EXPANSION OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY by
Henery W Kindall and David Pimentel (1994)
http://www.dieoff.org/page36.htm
* IMPACT OF POPULATION GROWTH ON FOOD SUPPLIES AND ENVIRONMENT
by David Pimentel, Xuewen Huang, Ana Cordova, and
Marcia Pimentel (February, 1996)
http://www.dieoff.org/page57.htm
* KERMIT OLSON MEMORIAL LECTURE: Food Supply and World
Population, by David Pimentel (March, 6, 1995)
http://www.dieoff.org/page59.htm
* TOWARDS A NEW ECONOMICS: Questioning Growth, by
Herman E. Daly, 1971
http://www.dieoff.org/page41.htm
* WHO BENEFITS? WHO PAYS? by Garrett Hardin (1985)
http://www.dieoff.org/page44.htm
* CULTURAL CARRYING CAPACITY: A biological approach to
human problems, by Garrett Hardin (1986)
http://www.dieoff.org/page46.htm
* AMERICA'S TREES ARE DYING by Charles E. Little (1995)
http://www.dieoff.org/page47.htm
* WHAT DANGERS LIE AHEAD? by James E. Lovelock (1994)
http://www.dieoff.org/page48.htm
* RETURN OF THE GROUP: People may have evolved to further
collective as well as individual interests, by Bruce
Bower (1995)
http://www.dieoff.org/page49.htm
* LIVING WITHIN OUR ENVIRONMENTAL MEANS: Natural Resources And
An Optimum Human Population, by Rachel F. Preiser (1994)
http://www.dieoff.org/page50.htm
* VICE PRESIDENT GORE CALLS FOR "ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT CARD"
Challenges Federal Agencies, Scientific Community To
Monitor Nation',s Ecosystems from The White House (1996)
http://www.dieoff.org/page51.htm
* WHY EXCESS IMMIGRATION DAMAGES THE ENVIRONMENT from
Population-Environment Balance (1992)
http://www.dieoff.org/page52.htm
* IMMIGRATION, JOBS & WAGES: The Misuses of Econometrics, by
Donald L. Huddle (1992)
http://www.dieoff.org/page53.htm
* WHY DO WOMEN HAVE BABIES? A book review by Robert A.
McConnell (September, 1996)
http://www.dieoff.org/page56.htm
* POPULATION POLITICS: The Carrying Capacity of the United
States, by Dr. Virginia Abernethy (1993)
http://www.dieoff.org/page58.htm
* IMMIGRATION AND THE U.S. ENERGY SHORTAGE by Donald Mann,
President Negative Population Growth, Inc. (May 1988)
http://www.dieoff.org/page60.htm
* CREATING JOBS IN A SUSTAINABLE WORLD by Nadia Steinzor
- ZPG Reporter (Sept/Oct, 1996)
http://www.dieoff.org/page61.htm
* GREENING THE CORPORATION by Ward Morehouse. Address to the
Greens Gathering, Los Angeles, August 16, 1996
http://www.dieoff.org/page62.htm
* ENERGY AND POPULATION: Transitional Issues and Eventual
Limits. by Paul J. Werbos (1993?)
http://www.dieoff.org/page63.htm
* FAREWELL LECTURE TO WORLD BANK by Herman E. Daly,
January 14,1994
http://www.dieoff.org/page64.htm
* An Ecolate View of the Human Predicament by Garrett
Hardin (date ?)
http://www.dieoff.org/page66.htm
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