Ecology - General & Miscellaneous, Environmental Conservation & Protection - General & Miscellaneous

Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths

Name: Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths
Author: Ronald Bailey
ISBN: 9780761536604

by Ronald Bailey

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Overview

The modern environmentalist movement began with the publication of three seminal works: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb, and the Club of Rome's The Limits of Growth. These books' dismal vision of a poisoned, overpopulated, polluted, resource-depleted world spiraling downward toward environmental collapse are today's conventional wisdom. According to a number of respected scientists, however, leaders of the environmental movement are guilty of twisting—and sometimes manufacturing—facts in an effort to frighten people into joining their cause. In this eye-opening book, some of the most respected researchers in the country explode the myths behind much of the doom and gloom of today's environmental movement. You will discover how the hysteria about global warming overpopulation, mass extinctions, coming food shortages, biotechnology, energy shortages, and more are grounded not in reason but in false science and fear of progress. Ultimately, the book will show that uniting much of the environmental movement is an agenda that is not so much antipollution as it is antihuman.

About the Author, Ronald Bailey

Ronald Bailey, science correspondent for Reason magazine and author of ECOSCAM: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse, is an adjunct scholar with the Competitive Enterprise Institute a nonprofit public policy organization in Washington, D.C. A member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, he is the producer of several documentaries for PBS television and ABC News, and his articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes, National Review, Commentary, and numerous other publications. Mr. Bailey lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Bailey (a writer and "adjunct scholar" at CEI, the Competitive Enterprise Institute) gathers these dozen articles to discredit what he calls "false science" and an "ideological environmentalism" that "wants to claim the mantle of objective science...." Bailey's contributor assertions include: global warming is not disastrous; CO2 is the lifeblood of the planet, not a pollutant; and organic agriculture is incapable of feeding the world's current population. Of 14 contributors, three are science PhDs (Borlaug is a Nobel Laureate and founder of the "green revolution"; Prakash, a food biotechnician who helped invent the transgenic sweet potato; Christy, a climatologist). The other 11 contributors are non- scientists, most with undergraduate degrees or no degree mentioned. Four contributors are, like Bailey, part of CEI, described in the contributor notes as an organization "dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government activity in a wide range of economic and environmental public policy issues." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR