*The Environment*
Environmentalism has many facets for the conservative, from his own desire to live in a clean and healthy environment to outrage at the left's encroachment on property rights in the name of the spotted owl to the reign of terror perpetrated by radical extremists in the movement. We cover all angles of the issue at the Conservative Bookstore.
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Challenging Environmental Mythology: Wrestling Zeus, by Jack Dini. As a scientist and environmental writer Jack Dini is making his mark. He understands the environment and the factors that effect it. In this book, he looks at how the environmental movement helped clean up the country. Nevertheless, in recent years it has been applying bogus science to coerce the government to institute policies that will not help the environment and, in some cases, may be downright unhealthy. Interesting reading for anyone who cares about the planet and also cares about common sense.
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Cutting Green Tape: Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation and the Law, edited by Richard L. Stroup and Roger E. Meiners. Current U. S. environmental policy creates as many problems as it solves. Money is thrown about with little result. The series of scholarly essays in this book plainly illustrate this and go further to propose concrete solutions to environmental problems including air, water and ground contamination. An excellent study for those interested in environmental issues.
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Goodbye Green: How extremists stole the environmental movement from middle America and killed it., by Glen A. Duncan is more than a brief overview of the Environmental Movement. Duncan proves his thesis that the Greening of America was at one time a movement primarilly of moderates and reasonable people. However, in recent decades, the mantle of environmentalism has been usurped by extremists unwilling to recognize or accept reasonable solutions to such problems as air and water polution. Thus solutions become outrageous and even damaging to individuals, liberty and property. He sites the Superfund legislation that proved a boon-doggle for trial lawyers and a headache for the rest of society burdened with the cost of its implementation. Glen Duncan has been an environmental journalist for nearly twenty years. In "Goodbye Green" he has put together a fascinating story.
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Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists (A Conservative Manifesto), by Peter Huber force feeds a healthy dose of common sense down the throat of the environmental movement. In "Hard Green", Mr. Huber disects environmental politics and notes that there are really two movements, first a conservative one that has its roots in the progressive Republican party of Teddy Rooselvelt. Roosevelt, early on, demonstrated that there is a case for the preservation of our natural wonders within clearly defined park borders. The other movement he designates the "soft greens". This group wants to see environmentalism thrust into our daily lives. By designating every portion of the world a protected habitat, they strive to deny natural liberty - tightly restricting human action. The environmentalists have an agenda that endeavors to set back industrial society by restricting economic growth; they seem unaware that "the more industrial we become, the longer we live and the healthier we grow." They seem unaware that air polution and waste was far worse in the early industrial revolution than it is today. They seem unaware that industrialization has had a net positive effect on the environment - for example, there are more trees in the United States today than there were when the Pilgrims touched the shores of Massachusettes. This book is indeed a Conservative Manifesto that should be studied by all sides of the environmental debate.
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Clearing the Air: The Real Story of the War on Air Polution, by Indur Goklany attacks one of the great myths about governmental environmental policy. His premise that the clean air act was not primarily responsible for improving air standards is buttressed by the fact that air quality was already rapidly improving BEFORE the clean air act was passed. He stresses that there is no reason to believe that this process would not have continued in the absence of federal intervention. In "Clearing the Air" Dr. Goklany argues that there is some need for laws regulating emissions into the environment. Yet he points out that these rules should be made and implemented on the lowest possible rung of the governmental ladder to ensure that they are tailored to local conditions. This is a thoughtful work that explores not merely U.S. environmental policy but also speculates on the natural forces in society that at first accept pollution to advance materially; as capabilities improve the same society begins to foster a cleaner environment as the next step in improving quality of life. Dr. Goklany, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University, has over twenty-five years experience working on air quality and other environmental and natural resource science and policy issues.
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Undue Influence: Wealthy Foundations, Grant Driven Environmental Groups, and Zealous Bureaucrats that Control Your Future, by Ron Arnold. $400,000,000.00 per year is invested by private foundations in environmental advocacy and research. This money is used to lobby Federal, State and Local Governments, to influence the direction of research, and to slant the delivery of news about the environment in the media. Ron Arnold is the formost advocate for sanity in the world of eco-environmentalism. In his new book he takes a look at where all of the environmentalist money is coming from, who is spending it, and how it is being spent. It is a fascinating story that reveals how the environmental movement is rapidly eroding the industrial civilization built up by society over the last several hundred years. The environmentalists have cut the flow of natural resources from federal lands; they have tightened the regulatory grip on private property and not compensated for the loss; they have increased the size of government lands so that now government controls nearly half the nation's real estate. This book is an eye-opening experience that should be required reading in every university and should be on every library's new-book shelf.
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Ron Arnold's book, Eco-Terror: The Violent Agenda to Save the Future gives a personal account of the death of one of the Unabomber's last victims, Gil Murray. By putting a human face on this innocent man cut down in the prime of life, we can see one example of the awful crimes that are commonly committed in the name of the environment. But there is more. This book is an analysis of the eco-terror movement and, indeed, it chronicles the history of Earth First! and PETA. It looks at individuals like Dave Foreman who lead the movement. The book ends with an insightful look at the whys and the wherefores of the environmental movement in general. This is a fascinating and informative read made even more immediate by the recent reign of terror perpetrated by a gang of roughians in Utah.
The Conservative Bookstore/Monitor interviewed Mr. Arnold for the Newsletter. For a comprehensive and erudite discussion on this issue you should read this conversation.
The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist, by Gordon Durnil. Mr. Durnil talks about why he is both a conservative and an environmentalist and why he feels the two philosophies go hand in hand.
Apocalypse Not; Science, Economics and Environmentalism (hb, 139pp) by Ben Bloch and Harold Lyons tells how the environmental movement is riddled with junk science. They also make an effort to quantify the costs to society of the illusions of the left.
Radical Environmentalism: Philosophy and Tactics, by Peter C. List. This book is a group of essays by the environmental extremists about their agenda and how they intend to carry it out. With contributions from Earth Firster - Dave Forman and Ecofeminist - Chaia Heller, and many more. Very enlightening.
Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism, (hb) by Martin W. Lewis describes why extreme environmentalism cannot succeed in the third world and how the movement is haunted by technophobia.
Trashing the Economy, (pb, 650pp) describes how runaway environmentalism is wrecking America. Two noted experts on free enterprise and environmentalism teamed up to put together this great resource that tracks every facet of the environmental movement. This is a bible for anyone who is interested in learning about radical environmentalism.
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