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What On Earth Is Going On?
Aired 3/23/2000
Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg examines the condition of our planet at the beginning of the new millennium. How concerned should we be about pollution, climate change, and population growth? Two think tanks, the Worldwatch Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, have published books that attempt to answer that question. Are they describing the same planet?
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Christopher Flavin
President at the Worldwatch Institute and co-author of the annual “State of the World”
Ronald Bailey
science correspondent for ‘Reason Magazine’, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and author of ‘Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution.’
Originally Aired: 3/23/2000
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