Historical roots of our ecologic crisis / Lynn White -- 2000: Planet Earth at the crossroads / Jim Motavalli -- The great environmentalists: cultural stereotypes and the environmental movement / Gordon Straw -- Race, poverty, and the environment: the disadvantaged face greater risks / B. Bryant and P. Mohai -- Overview of social ecology / Janet Biehl -- Comments on the international social ecology network gathering and the "Deep Social Ecology" of John Clark / Murray Bookchin -- Empire and the ecological apocalypse: the historiography of the imperial environment / John M. MacKenzie -- The carbon cycle, climate, and the long-term effects of fossil fuel burning / James F. Kasting -- Global warming: the origin and nature of the alleged scientific consensus / Richard S. Lindzen -- A dying planet? How the media have scared the public / Julian Simon -- Impacts of a projected depletion of the ozone layer / Frank R. DeGrujil -- Do we still need nature? The importance of biological diversity / Anthony C. Janetos -- There's no going back to nature / Walter Truett Anderson -- The making of a dissident / John Terborgh -- Conversations: Paul and Anne Ehrlich / Jim Motavalli -- From a carbon economy to a mixed economy: a global opportunity / Richard C. Rockwell -- Five hundred year plan / Randy Hayes -- Incentive systems that support sustainability: a First Nations example / Ronald L. Trosper.