Global Warming and Other Eco Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death

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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
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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.

Editorial Reviews

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

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  • ISBN-13: 9780761536604
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 9/24/2002
  • Edition description: 1ST
  • Pages: 448
  • Product dimensions: 6.25 (w) x 9.25 (h) x 1.50 (d)

Meet the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables
Contributors
Introduction: The Rise and Eventual Fall of Ideological Environmentalism
Ch. 1 The Global Warming Fiasco 1
Ch. 2 Feeding a World of 10 Billion People: The Miracle Ahead 29
Ch. 3 Population, Resources, and the Quest of "Stabilize Human Population": Myths and Realities 61
Ch. 4 A Century of Environmental Progress and Natural Resource Abundance 93
Ch. 5 Sustainable Development Versus Sustained Development 121
Ch. 6 Chemical Warfare: Ideological Environmentalism's Quixotic Campaign Against Synthetic Chemicals 149
Ch. 7 The Attack on Plant Biotechnology 179
Ch. 8 Avoiding Water Wars 219
Ch. 9 Fueling the Future 243
Ch. 10 The Precautionary Principle's Challenge to Progress 265
Ch. 11 Enclosing the Environmental Commons 293
Benchmarks: The Global Trends That Are Shaping Our World 319
Notes 373
Index 409
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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 26, 2006

    Yes, We Have Myths

    Being an individual of some academic achievement and having taught at the graduate level, it's with some degree of reason that I might be able to discern truth from fiction. Having written extensive references to scientific publications showing the paucity of true facts and solid reasoning behind much of the global warming hysteria, it is with a great deal of enthusiasm that I write in support of this book. At the very least it should cause an individual with an open mind to research the subject themselves and not rely on the major media and politicians to tell them what to believe. Thank you!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 4, 2003

    Corporate Proaganda at its Lowest Form

    I read this book hoping to glean a balanced view of current environmental issues. Instead, I was given page after page of pathetic corporate propaganda aimed at dismissing even the slightest admissions that anything in the world may have environmental consequences. The writers are unknown, and all but three have absolutely no knowledge of science whatsoever. The Competitive Enterprises Institute, as I later discovered, is funded by the companies that produce the chemicals that this book is meant to protect. Read this book only if you are interested in corporate propaganda- otherwise leave it alone.

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