ArtVM - The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About--Because They Helped Cause Them

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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 363.7 EAN: 9781596980549 ISBN: 1596980540 Label: Regnery Publishing Manufacturer: Regnery Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 354 Publication Date: 2008-04-22 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Studio: Regnery Publishing
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent! Comment: A must read for anyone who thinks they are open minded and should see both sides. Customer Rating: Summary: A Little Strident, But Factual Comment: Although the tone of the writing sometimes put me off, I found the six of the seven examples well documented and argued. The author's conclusions were fully supportable from the evidence. However, the equating of "Liberals" to "Environmentalists" is not as exact as the author would like us to believe. But his analysis of environmentalism as a new and powerful secular religion (based in Mother Earth as God) is directly on target. To look at the seven (actually eight) cases: (1) Global Warming & Al Gore. Although Gore and the media claim there is general scientific consensus on global warming and that the warming is due to man's intervention, that statement is false. At the time of this review (12/08), there is evidence that the aveage world temperature has been increasing about a degree per century, but there is no irrefutable evidence that this is coming from any actions of man. (See Solomon, "The Deniers") Al Gore is making millions with his propaganda efforts to panic the American population with a doomsday scenerio that cannot be supported by scientific evidence. Sounds like a scurrilious politician to me. (2) The banning of DDT based on the propaganda work by Rachel Carson reversed the control of malaria and other diseases that had been achieved by the 1960s, and tens of millions of humans have died as a result. This is well-trodden ground, fully supportable by scientific evidence, but has not been reversed due to the environmental lobby. Even worse, Carol Browder, Clinton's head of the EPA, even banned Diazinon, the most effective controller of ticks and other pests since DDT, and now Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain Fever are exploding in the US. One can argue that environmentalists are abject racists in seeking to ban the effective control of malaria in Africa, not caring about the people there because they are black, but I invite them to come to my ranch and spend a week outside. They will be bitten from one to five times by ticks, and I would like to see their lily-white, elitist reaction when they realize the possibility that they contracted Lyme disease. (3) Ethanol. The problem of burning food for energy instead of eating it for survival is covered extremely well. As a cattle rancher (horrors, I raise animals for FOOD!), I see the rise in the price of corn due to its diversion into a source for ethanol. Using ethanol in place of gasoline will cause widespread hunger throughout the Third World, but again, environmentalists are not concerned since they are all yellow, brown or black anyway and we need to start lowering the population. (When will the 3rd World wake up and see what is going on?) (4) Contraception pollutants: Estrogen released into the water is drastically altering animal reproduction. Again, this is based on solid evidence, but totally ignored by environmentalists who see this as a by-product of the wonman's right to control her own body and enjoy sex whenever she desires. OK, I understand the issue, but why can't we talk about it? Oh, I forgot, one doesn't point out the "unintended consequences." (5) Yellowstone & Forest Fire Control. We have gone back and forth on the issue of fighting fires or allowing nature to take its course. However, allowing the forests to build up extensive amounts of underbrush and then attempting a "controlled burn" is a recipe for disaster. And so it has proved. Particularly when the Government bans logging or the cutting of fire control roads and the like. The moral: government management is worse than private ownership and management. Again, the evidence is irrefutable. (6) The Cuyahoga River on fire. This is the weakest of the cases, but the fire happened because the State of Ohio issued permits for dumping into the river over the objections of the local Clevelanders. Cleveland had already taken steps to clean up the river (and Lake Erie), but higher government intervention brought about the debacle. The moral here is that the more remote a government is from the scene, the less effective it is (for example, FEMA.) So why are we attempting to interject the Federal Government into everything? (7)Endangered Species. Yep, this Act has had a host of unintended consequences, all bad, and the entire idea is probably so badly flawed as to be unworkable. In many cases, the Government's right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing, and ecologically insignificant insects and animals are considered much more important than human beings. Have you ever noticed how animal rights activitists love animals but hate people? (Other people, of course.) (8) State Planning (Communism) At Work. The case is about the disappearance of the vast majority of the Aral Sea on the altar of state planning. Once again, the actions of a powerful government, unstoppable by local individuals, wreaked an ecological disaster. So the answer? Return the land to the people through local control and private ownership. Oh, I forgot (& here's where the liberals come in), liberals and environmentalists always know what is best for us, and their answer is always another federal agency or government regulation. Welcome to fuddle, muddle, and catastrophy. This is an excellent book and should be required reading in all American high schools. Customer Rating: Summary: Wait a minute. Comment: I'll admit at the beginning of his review that I have not read this book. However after reading most of these reviews it seems that there is not an environmentalist among the group of reviewers. This book seems to be a gotcha type of book, not at all aimed at trying to find solutions to real problems but instead more interested in pointing out negative, placing blame and lumping everyone concerned about the environment into one group. I would consider myself an environmentalist and can say I'm more interested in finding solutions than pushing a political group's agenda. I particularly love to see individuals be a part of the solution. I have worked with farmer to restore portions of their farms for use by wildlife and to help ensure that the water leaving their farms is clean. I think most people who have dealt with the endangered species act recognize that it has some problems and perhaps creates some incentives that are not advantageous to species protection sometimes. However attempt to alter it have mostly come from groups more concerned with lifting the `burden' of compliance for businesses and not to improve the way it works. As far as the consequences' of birth control pills on the environment, I believe I first heard about its potential problems from the sierra club an organization that I think this author would deem to be from the far left. So if the left does want anyone to know about it the memo has got to everyone. By the way I'm very concerned with the false notion of sex without consequence. It's not accurate to say that environmentalists are all in the same political camp. I myself try to stay away from either camp. Regarding Ethanol, many environmentalists have been pointing out the problems with using corn based ethanol as a fuel and fuel additive long before this book was published and many before politicians considered enacting laws about. The idea that the `ethanol agenda' is somehow a liberal one is just propaganda from a writer who is more concern with promoting a book and a right wing agenda than real environmental solutions. While government programs are not always a good solution and when some other solution can be found should be avoid, they sometimes are appropriate and can provide needed incentive to do get the right thing done. For instance the farmers I mentioned before that I assisted in restoring portion of their farms often time where able to do so because of joint grants from the government and environmental groups. Some of the farmers had real interest in the environment but for many the land was marginal and the grant money was the incentive. Also if it wasn't for the government stepping in to create fuel standards we may not have the fuel efficiency we have today. I would just encourage the readers of this book to avoid the pitfall this books is trying to push you into which is to believe that concern for the environment is a leftist political issue or a political issue at all and that environmentalist have a secret agenda to subvert your freedom. This is everyone's planet; the rich and the poor, and those from both sides of the political spectrum. Let's work together to find solutions not point fingers. Customer Rating: Summary: A valuable, eye-opening contribution to the environmental debate Comment: Murray's work, "The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About--Because They Helped Cause Them", does a superb job of revealing the deep interplay of politics in the environmental debate. Murray illustrates, through sources readily available but often bypassed by mainstream media, how environmentalists distort the truths they purport to represent, and how politics guides which causes they select to represent or ignore. My eyes were opened reading about documented genetic damage caused by hormones flushed into the water supply via millions of birth control pills. The media silence on that issue is scandalous, but unsurprising given the implications of a genuine investigation into the problem. Murray shows methodically how politicians subverted genuine experts with policies disguised as public-interest management that, while achieving political aims, also resulted in a river set on fire, national parks transformed into tinderboxes and lakes dried into deserts. When the consequences arrived, Murray shows these same politicians (and their allied "environmental groups") manipulated public opinion to twist responsibility onto industry -- often industry whose practices were dictated by the politicians' "public interest" policies. It's a pity Murray didn't include Love Canal in his work. The granddaddy of the Environmental Superfund is a textbook rendition of how state officials, pursuing naked political ambition, overran the safety efforts of a chemical company, then blamed their own disaster on the company that tried to stop them. Perhaps Murray will get to that in volume 2. Until then, this work will have you running from every giant "Green" government initiative, clutching desperately to your wallet, while seeing state "protection" policies in a new, more realistic light. Customer Rating: Summary: Good arguments Comment: This is an outstanding read for a technical person. Sums things up well. Sometimes was a little repetitive but when your finished the info is in your head. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Iain Murray's rollicking exposé reveals how environmental blowhards waste more energy, endanger more species, and actually kill more people than the environmental villains they finger.