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The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Clean Planet (Hardcover)

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Hardcover: 450 pages
Publisher: Cato Institute,U.S.; illustrated edition edition (1 Mar 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1930865996
ISBN-13: 978-1930865990
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 16 x 4.1 cm
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Goklany (formerly of the Environmental Protection Agency) presents a counterargument to "pessimists" who contend that current trends of economic growth and technological change are creating greater levels of inequality and wreaking lasting environmental damage. He bases his argument on the selection of long-term data that often differs from those t

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