Further Readings, Useful and Interesting Links, Etc.

Models:

If you’d like to read more of the debate between pessimistic and optimistic assessment of the relationship between people/population and environment/resources, try these "techno-optimists" and "cornucopian" views, which also point to the basic environmentalist and pessimist view:

http://www.juliansimon.com/
(see especially his essay on population growth:

http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Articles/POPOPED3.txt#

Also see:

http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/cpr-20n2-1.html

Lomborg:

http://www.lomborg.com/books.htm

Theme 1: Environmental Perception

For more details on limits on people’s perception of events and risk, try Kahneman’s Nobel lecture:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2002/

nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2002/kahnemann-lecture.pdf

Theme 2: Human Transformaton of Earth

For a careful look at the efficacy (or lack thereof) of cloud seeding to intervene in the hydrologic cycle, see the National Academy of Sciences study:

http://newton.nap.edu/catalog/10829.html#toc

which you can read on-line.