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Transfigured plight

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Robert Hunt Sprinkle
Robert Hunt Sprinkle
Affiliation:
School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Our environment is complex, but it is understandable through rational investigation, and it is not to be feared. So wrote Titus Lucretius Carus of the nature of things some thirty human lifetimes ago—not so long, really. About species evolution Lucretius thought much, guessed well, and worried little. About microparasitic evolution he knew nothing. Would he have feared it? Should we fear it now?

Type
Commentary
Information
Environment and Development Economics , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , July 1996 , pp. 376 - 380
Copyright
Copyright © 1996, Cambridge University Press

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