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p. 291 ‘the poet Hesiod was nostalgic for a lost golden age’. Hesiod, Works and Days II.
p. 292 ‘Plato, who deplored writing as a destroyer of memorising’. Barron, D. 2009. A Better Pencil. Oxford University Press.
p. 292 ‘scalded and defoliated by a kind of cognitive Agent Orange’. John Cornwell. Is technology ruining our children? The Times, 27 April 2008.
p. 292 ‘The psychoanalyst Adam Phillips’. Phillips, A. and Taylor, B. 2009. On Kindness. Hamish Hamilton. Excerpted in The Guardian, 3 January 2009.
p. 293 ‘Bill McKibben’s best-selling dirge of 1989’. McKibben, W. 1989. The End of Nature. Random House.
p. 293 ‘Robert Kaplan told the world in 1994’. www.theatlantic.com/doc/199402/anarchy.
p. 293 ‘our stolen future’. Colburn, T., Dumanoski, D. and Myers, J.P. 1996. Our Stolen Future. Dutton. See Breithaupt, H. 2004. A Cause without a Disease. EMBO Reports 5:16–18.
p. 293 ‘Jared Diamond fell under the spell of fashionable pessimism’. Diamond, J. 1995. The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee. Radius.
p. 294 ‘Martin Rees in his book’. Rees, M. 2003. Our Final Century. Heinemann.
p. 294 ‘what Greg Easterbrook calls’. Easterbrook, G. 2003. The Progress Paradox. Random House.
p. 294 ‘People ... tend to assume that they will live longer, stay married longer and travel more than they do’. Gilbert, D. 2007. Stumbling on Happiness. Harper Press.
p. 294 ‘Dane Stangler calls this’. Stangler, D., personal communication.
p. 294 ‘people much more viscerally dislike losing a sum of money than they like winning the same sum’. McDermott, R., Fowler, J.H. and Smirnov, O. 2008. On the evolutionary origin of prospect theory preferences. The Journal of Politics 70:335–50.
p. 294 ‘pessimism genes might quite literally be commoner than optimism genes’. Fox, E., Ridgewell, A. and Ashwin, C. 2009. Looking on the bright side: biased attention and the human serotonin transporter gene. Proceedings of the Royal Society B (doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1788).
p. 295 ‘the 7-repeat version of the DRD4 gene accounts for 20 per cent of financial risk taking in men’. Dreber, A. et al. 2009. The 7R polymorphism in the dopamine receptor D4 gene (DRD4) is associated with financial risk taking in men. Evolution and Human Behavior (in press).
p. 295 ‘The day I was writing a first draft of this paragraph, the BBC reported’. 1 May 2008.
p. 295 ‘how the New York Times reported the reassuring news in 2009 that world temperature had not risen for a decade’. New York Times, 23 September 2009.
p. 296 ‘a new theory suggests that cosmic rays are a bigger cause of the Antarctic ozone hole than chlorine is’. Lu, Q.-B. 2009. Correlation between cosmic rays and ozone depletion. Physical Review Letters 102:118501–9400.
p. 297 ‘Rachel Carson, influenced by Hueper, set out in her book Silent Spring (1962) to terrify her readers’. Carson, R. 1962. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin.
p. 297 ‘other causes of childhood death were declining faster’. Bailey, R. 2002. Silent Spring at 40. Reason, June 2002. http://www.reason.com/news/show/34823.html.
p. 298 ‘wrote the environmentalist Paul Ehrlich in 1971’. Ehrlich, P. 1970. The Population Bomb. 2nd edition. Buccaneer Press.
p. 298 ‘Later he was more specific’. Special Earthday edition of Ramparts magazine, 1970.
p. 298 ‘both cancer incidence and death rate from cancer fell steadily’. Ames, B.N. and Gold, L.S. 1997. Environmental pollution, pesticides and the prevention of cancer: misconceptions. FASEB Journal 11:1041–52.
p. 298 ‘Richard Doll and Richard Peto had concluded that age-adjusted cancer rates were falling’. Doll, R. and Peto, R. 1981. The causes of cancer: quantitative estimates of avoidable risks of cancer in the United States today. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 66:1193–1308.
p. 298 ‘As Bruce Ames famously demonstrated in the late 1990s’. Ames, B.N. and Gold, L.S. 1997. Environmental pollution, pesticides, and the prevention