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Citations to:
The Science of Disorder: Understanding the Complexity,
Uncertainty, and Pollution in Our World
By Jack
Hokikian, Ph.D.
[1]
Professor Frederick Kirschenmann,
Director of the
[2] On November 21,
2004, the New York Times in its Week
in Review section published a short anonymous exposé under the title
“ECO-ECONOMICS UNMASKED.” It was a summary of an article that had appeared on a
British Web site entitled “The dismal quackery of eco-economics” by Daniel
Ben-Ami. This article attacked the precautionary principle and ecological
economics. The exposé in the Times
caught the eyes of Peter Montague, editor of Rachel’s Environmental and Health News of the Environmental
Research Foundation. He quickly responded to both pieces of writing, invoking
the Second Law of Thermodynamics—the Law of Entropy—and referencing
The Science of Disorder.
[3] In an article
entitled “What They Can’t Control,” writer and artist Catherine Sundberg brings to our attention the recent findings of the
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report. 1,300 experts from 95 countries spent 4
years on this unprecedented study and discovered that 60% of Earth’s ecosystems
are degraded. Sundberg then ties seamlessly the
report’s findings to The Science of
Disorder and the Law of Entropy. The article was
published by CommonDreams.org
on
[4]
On
[5]
An article in a German Web site addressed to “voters and
non-voters” states: “If energy policy in elections plays a role and you in
elections play a role, it could be helpful if you understand: ‘The energy
problem is actually an entropy problem.’ ” In the last paragraph, it says:
“Entropy should interest you, dear reader and taxpayer.” At the end of the
article, it links to the home page of The
Science of Disorder. Translation courtesy of Yahoo.
[6] The Science of Disorder was also cited in Ecological Economics: Principles and
Applications by Herman E. Daly [University of Maryland] and Joshua Farley
[University of Vermont], published by Island Press in November 2003.