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optimism v., 181–82, 184–85<br />

radical, 173<br />

Hor<strong>to</strong>n, Scott, 95–96<br />

Hubbert, M. King, 22<br />

hubris, 176<br />

human capital, 59<br />

Humanity: A Moral His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Twentieth Century (Glover), 162<br />

human species<br />

case against, 138–45<br />

collision course <strong>of</strong>, 155–56<br />

evolution <strong>of</strong>, 142–43<br />

extinction <strong>of</strong>, 73, 127, 157<br />

irrationality <strong>of</strong>, 139–40, 167–68<br />

knowledge and, 142<br />

morality <strong>of</strong>, 161–62<br />

nonlinear systems and, 194<br />

optimism about, 126–27<br />

population size <strong>of</strong>, 26, 157<br />

self-refl ection by, 163<br />

stage <strong>of</strong>, ix–x<br />

survival prospects <strong>of</strong>, 1, 26, 224n27<br />

well-being indica<strong>to</strong>rs for, 171<br />

worthiness <strong>of</strong>, 137–38<br />

Hummer, 165<br />

Hurricane Katrina, 18, 38, 103,<br />

111–12<br />

Hyde, Tom, 115<br />

idealism, 196<br />

Illich, Ivan, 81, 212<br />

inclusiveness, <strong>of</strong> Constitution, 14<br />

individualism, 15, 167<br />

ingratitude, 148–49<br />

Interface, Inc., 170<br />

intergenerational law, 227n2<br />

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate<br />

Change, xi, 1, 17, 44, 113, 182,<br />

188<br />

inverted <strong>to</strong>talitarianism, 17<br />

Iraq invasion<br />

cost <strong>of</strong>, 7, 24, 195<br />

press coverage <strong>of</strong>, 61, 225n8<br />

index S 255<br />

Jackson, Tim, 30<br />

Jacoby, Susan, 50, 64<br />

Jefferson, Thomas, 61, 65, 74, 76, 90<br />

Jesus, 133, 148<br />

John Amos plant, 114<br />

Johnson, Chalmers, 24<br />

Johns<strong>to</strong>n, Sadhu, 188<br />

Joy, Bill, 124, 221n1<br />

Jung, Carl, 51–52, 155<br />

Kalinowski, Frank, 15<br />

Kaplan, Robert, 50<br />

Kauffman, Stuart, 134, 137<br />

Kayford Mountain, 114, 116–17, 124<br />

Kennan, George, 196<br />

Kennedy, John F., 100, 108, 165<br />

Kentucky, 113<br />

kindness, revolution in, 180<br />

King, Martin Lu<strong>the</strong>r, Jr., 133, 200<br />

Korten, <strong>David</strong>, 208<br />

Krauss, Nicole, 1<br />

Kunstler, James Howard, 221n1<br />

Kurzweil, Ray, 221n1<br />

Kuttner, Robert, 67, 94, 108<br />

LaHaye, Tim, 129<br />

laissez-faire <strong>the</strong>ories, 206<br />

land ethic, 76, 208<br />

“The Land Ethic” (Leopold), 208<br />

land management<br />

changes in, 17–22<br />

governing <strong>of</strong>, 43–48<br />

landscape design, 170<br />

The Late Great Planet Earth (Lindsay),<br />

129<br />

law<br />

<strong>climate</strong>-change cases and, 70<br />

intergenerational, 227n2<br />

presidential commission for<br />

changes in, 207–9<br />

property, 44–48<br />

laws <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>rmodynamics, 192<br />

Layard, Richard, 199

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