Ecoscam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse

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Fifteen years ago, we were warned to prepare for the next Ice Age. Today, we worry about our ever-shrinking ozone layer and the looming threat of global warming. Ever since the atomic bomb, the public and policymakers have been barraged by predictions of imminent environmental doom - none of which came true, and, Ronald Bailey asserts, none of which probably ever will come true. In this timely, hard-hitting book, Bailey explores and explodes the popular myths of global disaster, from "nuclear winter" to the depletion of nonrenewable resources. Who are the "prophets of doom" whose apocalyptic visions keep their lecture calendars full and their audiences in constant anticipation of the world's end? What effect are they
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Fifteen years ago, we were warned to prepare for the next Ice Age. Today, we worry about our ever-shrinking ozone layer and the looming threat of global warming. Ever since the atomic bomb, the public and policymakers have been barraged by predictions of imminent environmental doom - none of which came true, and, Ronald Bailey asserts, none of which probably ever will come true. In this timely, hard-hitting book, Bailey explores and explodes the popular myths of global disaster, from "nuclear winter" to the depletion of nonrenewable resources. Who are the "prophets of doom" whose apocalyptic visions keep their lecture calendars full and their audiences in constant anticipation of the world's end? What effect are they having on the economic and environmental policies that will shape our planet's future? Bailey, a PBS producer and former Forbes science writer, offers clear and compelling arguments to debunk the popular grim prophecies. In the process, he questions the wisdom of such established environmental gurus as Carl Sagan, Jeremy Rifkin, Paul Ehrlich, and Barry Commoner: Are they activists or alarmists? In a book sure to raise discussion, debate, and controversy, Bailey assures us that while the earth is in far better shape than we've been led to believe, a few highly paid, highly regarded "intellectuals" are building successful careers out of convincing us otherwise, and diverting scarce resources into foolish and unnecessary programs.

"Bailey explodes shibboleths of the environmental movement in an unsettling, thought-provoking polemic certain to stir controversy."--Publishers Weekly. Bailey has covered science as a writer for Forbes and as a producer for PBS.

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Remember the big hole in the ozone that was supposed to open up over the Northern Hemisphere with dire consequences last spring? Didn't happen, did it? Science and technology reporter Bailey says that was just the latest in a series of ecological catastrophes that haven't happened since the first A-bomb was dropped. Moreover, if the news media had listened to other reputable scientists, we would have known that the apocalypses ecological alarmists have told us were just around the corner just plain weren't! Chapter by heavily referenced chapter, Bailey takes on such environmental doom mongers as overpopulation guru Paul Ehrlich, the resource-depletion prophesying Club of Rome, biotechnology decrier Jeremy Rifkin, nuclear winter harpy Carl Sagan, and others, and makes very good his overall case that they act out of political (and financial: it's easier to get government funding if it seems you're averting disaster) more than scientific motives. The doomsters are in fact, he provocatively argues, the successors to two now-discredited earlier bands of apocalyptics: (1) Christian millenarians, such as the nineteenth-century Millerites, and (2) political determinists, such as the various followers of Karl Marx. This is first-class debunking, a must for every current affairs collection.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312086985
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 2/1/1993
  • Edition description: 1st ed
  • Pages: 185

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ch. 1 The Imagination of Disaster 1
Ch. 2 The Countdown to Doomsday Begins 24
Ch. 3 The End of Hunger 40
Ch. 4 The Depletion Myth 63
Ch. 5 The Refrigerator Effect 79
Ch. 6 Dr. Frankenstein's Dream 88
Ch. 7 The Doomsday Machine 110
Ch. 8 The Hole in the Sky 119
Ch. 9 The Sky Is Falling 141
Ch. 10 The Media and the Messiahs 168
Notes 179
Index 221

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