This Week's Suggested Book
from the Ashbrook Center
(Monday, August 14, 2000)
 | | Hard Green:
Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists A Conservative Manifesto
by Peter Huber |
Basic Books
224 pages, January 1999
Hardcover, 25.00
ISBN: 0465031129
A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase of this book from Amazon.com will benefit the
Ashbrook Center.
Hard Green indicts environmentalism as we know it today — and articulates a robust, conservative alternative. Captured as it has
been by the “Soft Green” oligarchy of scientists, regulators and lawyers, modern environmentalism does not conserve forests,
oceans, lakes and streams — it hastens their destruction. The alternative: a return to Yellowstone and the National Forests, the original
environmentalism of Theodore Roosevelt and the conservation movement. Chapter by chapter, Peter Huber
takes on the big issues of environmental discourse, from scarcity and pollution to efficiency and waste disposal.
Table of Contents
- The Rough Rider and the Wonk
- Part. I. What Is and What Will Be
- 1. Scarcity: Malthus on a Chip
- 2. Externality: Pollution on a Chip
- 3. Complexity: Gaia and the Sandpile
- 4. Efficiency: The Fat of the Land
- 5. Eschatology: From Malthus to Faust
- Part. II. Capitalist Green
- 6. The Conservative Commune
- 7. Save the Earth
- 8. Privatizing Pollution
- 9. The Limits to Growth
- 10. Ethics in the Green Lifeboat
- 11. The Limits of Certitude
- A Conservative Environmental Manifesto
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
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