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Nature’s greatest spectacle

A new issue of Electronic Green Journal is out. Fred Magdoff (Vermont): Global Resource Depletion: Is Population the Problem? John Copeland (Notre Dame): Good Pollution. Raghav Gaiha (Delhi), Kenneth Hill (Harvard), Ganesh Thapa, and Varsha S. Kulkarni (Indiana): Have Natural Disasters Become Deadlier? From the new online magazine Ensia, are migrations going extinct? Jeremy Leon Hance on saving nature’s greatest spectacle. Russell Baker reviews Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba. Some scientists think that James Lovelock's Gaia theory is nuts, but the public love it — could both sides be right? Peter Blair reviews How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism by Roger Scruton (and more and more and more).