| Analytical Contents | |
| List of Figures | |
| List of Tables | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments for the First Edition | |
| Acknowledgments for the Second Edition | |
| Introduction. What Are the Real Population and Resource Problems? | 3 |
| 1 | The Amazing Theory of Raw-Material Scarcity | 23 |
| 2 | Why Are Material-Technical Resource Forecasts So Often Wrong? | 41 |
| 3 | Can the Supply of Natural Resources - Especially Energy - Really Be Infinite? Yes! | 54 |
| 4 | The Grand Theory | 73 |
| 5 | Famine 1995? or 2025? or 1975? | 84 |
| 6 | What Are the Limits on Food Production? | 97 |
| 7 | The Worldwide Food Situation Now: Shortage Crises, Glut Crises, and Government | 109 |
| 8 | Are We Losing Ground? | 127 |
| 9 | Two Bogeymen: "Urban Sprawl" and Soil Erosion | 139 |
| 10 | Water, Wood, Wetlands - and What Next? | 151 |
| 11 | When Will We Run Out of Oil? Never! | 162 |
| 12 | Today's Energy Issues | 182 |
| 13 | Nuclear Power: Tomorrow's Greatest Energy Opportunity | 203 |
| 14 | A Dying Planet? How the Media Have Scared the Public | 212 |
| 15 | The Peculiar Theory of Pollution | 223 |
| 16 | Whither the History of Pollution? | 233 |
| 17 | Pollution Today: Specific Trends and Issues | 241 |
| 18 | Bad Environmental and Resource Scares | 258 |
| 19 | Will Our Consumer Wastes Bury Us? | 275 |
| 20 | Should We Conserve Resources for Others' Sakes? What Kinds of Resources Need Conservation? | 283 |
| 21 | Coercive Recycling, Forced Conservation, and Free-Market Alternatives | 297 |
| 22 | Standing Room Only? The Demographic Facts | 311 |
| 23 | What Will Future Population Growth Be? | 326 |
| 24 | Do Humans Breed Like Flies? Or Like Norwegian Rats? | 342 |
| 25 | Population Growth and the Stock of Capital | 357 |
| 26 | Population's Effects on Technology and Productivity | 367 |
| 27 | Economies of Scope and Education | 391 |
| 28 | Population Growth, Natural Resources, and Future Generations | 399 |
| 29 | Population Growth and Land | 412 |
| 30 | Are People an Environmental Pollution? | 429 |
| 31 | Are Humans Causing Species Holocaust? | 439 |
| 32 | A Greater Population Does Not Damage Health, or Psychological and Social Well-Being | 459 |
| 33 | The Big Economic Picture: Population Growth and Living Standards in MDCs | 471 |
| 34 | The Big Picture II: LDCs | 491 |
| 35 | How the Comparisons People Make Affect Their Beliefs about Whether Things Are Getting Better or Worse | 513 |
| 36 | The Rhetoric of Population Control: Does the End Justify the Means? | 519 |
| 37 | The Reasoning behind the Rhetoric | 537 |
| 38 | Ultimately - What Are Your Values? | 547 |
| 39 | The Key Values | 557 |
| Conclusion. The Ultimate Resource | 578 |
| Epilogue. My Critics and I | 593 |
| Notes | 617 |
| References | 653 |
| Index | 691 |
