This Week's Suggested Book
from the Ashbrook Center
(Monday, May 25, 1998)
 | | The True State of the Planet:
Ten of the World's Premier Environmental Researchers in a Major Challenge to the Environmental Movem
by Ronald Bailey ed. |
Free Press
472 pages, January 1995
Paperback, 15.00
ISBN: 0028740106
A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase of this book from Amazon.com will benefit the
Ashbrook Center.
In the 25 years since the first Earth Day in 1970, the environmental movement has spawned a new generation of scientists asking vital questions about the true state and fate of the plant. But, surprisingly, some of their answers—and even the questions themselves—contradict the movement's deepest beliefs. Why are reserves of oil, precious metals, and other natural resources more plentiful than ever before? Why has the population growth of the twentieth century brought rising standards of living for nearly all? In The True State of the Planet ten premier scholars shatter the myths of overpopulation, food, global warming, and pesticides, while redirecting environmentalists' concerns to the far more urgent problems of fisheries, fresh water, and third-world pollution—and the political causes behind them.
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