Julian Simon cornered the market in environmental super-optimism back in the
1980s with The Ultimate Resource, a great little book about how, with human
ingenuity at the helm, things could only go on getting better. Now comes The
Ultimate Resource 2 (Princeton University Press, ISBN 0 691 04269 1), an
expansion rather than a sequel, with most of the didactic chapter headings
intact, such as 鈥淲hen will we run out of oil? Never!鈥�
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