The Skeptical
Environmentalist: Measureing the Real State of the World
by Bjorn Lomborg.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Part I. The Litany: 1.1 Things are getting better;
1.2. Why do we hear so much bad news?; Part II. Human Welfare:
2.1. Measuring human welfare; 2.2 Life expectancy and health;
2.3. Food and hunger; 2.4. Prosperity; 2.5. Conclusion; Part
III. Can Human Prosperity Continue?: 3.1 Are we living on
borrowed time?; 3.2. Will we have enough food; 3.3. Forests
- are we losing them?; 3.4. Energy; 3.5. Non-energy resources;
3.6. Water; 3.7. Conclusion; Part IV. Pollution: 4.1. Air
pollution; 4.2. Acid rain and forest death; 4.3. Indoor air
pollution; 4.4. Allergies and asthma; 4.5. Water pollution;
4.6. Waste: running out of space?; 4.7. Conclusion; Part V.
Tomorrow's Problems: 5.1. Our chemical fears; 5.2. Biodiversity;
5.3. Global warming; Part VI. The real State of the World:
6.1. Predicament or progress?; Notes; Bibliography.
Jack Hirshleifer, University of California, Los Angeles
"...indicates what needs to be done to address the real
environmental hazards..."
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| The Law
by Frederic Bastiat.
A powerful summary of Bastiat's critique
of socialism. Written in 1853, current in 1996. |
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In a Dark Wood:
The Fight Over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology
by Alston Chase.
Mr. Chase's new book hits hard on radical
environmentalism,
Earth First!, and the battle for old growth forests in the
Pacific Northwest. Mr Chase
exposes the lack of any scientific basis for biocentrism and
ecosystem management. |
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No Turning
Back: Dismantling the Fantasies of Environmental Thinking
by Wallace Kaufman.
Mr. Wallace argues that many environmentalists
really adopt a view of nature and society that is deeply unscientific.
Saving the world by recycling, organic gardening, and reduced
consumption leaves our real environmental problems unsolved.
What makes this news is that it is coming from an environmentalist
and science writer. |
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Panic in the Pantry
by Elizabeth Whelan.
From Book News, Inc.
Prometheus, the puncturer of misconceptions, publishes the
revised edition of a book first done in 1975. Two distinguished
writers debunk food scares. Annotation copyright Book News,
Inc. Portland, Or.
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Trashing the
Economy: How Runaway Environmentalism is Wrecking America
by Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb.
Wow! If you only get one
book, let this be the one! This book examines in detail over
60 organizations who are involved in pushing an environmental
or animal rights agenda. For each organization, the authors
list its annual budget, size of staff, number of members,
tax status, headquarters, etc... More facts than you can imagine. |
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The True State
of the Planet: 10 of the World's Premier Environmental Researchers
in a Major Challenge to the Environmental Movement
by Ronald Bailey, editor.
This book is a project of the Competitive
Enterprise Institute. An excellent book that addresses common
sense solutions for food production, rescuing the oceans,
conserving biodiversity, water options, the economy and the
environment, population trends, pesticides, forests, cancer,
among others. Lots of useful, well-documented information
for speeches, letters, etc.
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How to Identify,
Expose, and Correct Liberal Media Bias
by Brent Baker.
A very practical book giving detailed explanations
of media bias and step-by-step instructions on how to correct
it. |
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Playing God
in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National
Park
by Alston Chase.
Excellent reading about how the National
Park Service and its political policies and conservationist
friends are destroying Yellowstone. |
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Getting to
Yes
by Roger Fisher and William Ury.
A straightforward, universally
applicable method for negotiating personal and professional
disputes without getting taken-and without getting angry. |
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Taking the
Fear Out of Eating
by Charlette R. Gallagher and John B. Allred.
A nutritionist's
guide to sensible food choices.
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Books Available From OWA Lending Library |
The Hijacking
of the Humane Movement
by Patti and Rod Strand.
This book will give you the facts
on the history of the animal rights movement, its main organizations
and leaders, and their strategies.
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Saving the Planet
with Pesticides and Plastic: The Environmental Triumph of
High-Yield Farming
by Dennis T. Avery.
This book takes on the dire pronouncements
of prominent environmentalists about our food supply, water,
forests, organic farming, global warming, soil, etc...
From Book News, Inc.
A former agricultural specialist for the federal government,
Avery argues that high-yield agriculture using chemical
pesticides, fertilizers, and biotechnology is the solution
to environmental problems--not a cause of them, as environmental
activists have found. Using high-yield methods for farming,
he argues, frees up more land for wildlife at the same time
it can contribute to a stabilized world population, feed
hungry Third World children, and provide adequate food for
the planet's increasing pet population. According to Avery,
organic farming is not broadly sustainable and degrades
the environment more than does farming that relies on chemicals.
Distributed by Brookings Institution Press.
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The Federalist
by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison.
Eighty-five
political essays written in 1787 in defense of the Constitution
of the United States.
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Age Wave
by Dr. Ken Dychtwald.
Based on 15 years of research by a world
renowned expert on aging, this is the first book to explore
the profound effects our aging population and the changing
demographics that go with it, will have on every aspect of
society, and our personal plans and dreams for the future.
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Environmental Gore
by John Baden.
John Baden, chairman of the Foundation for
Research on Economics and the Environment, assembled a formidable
truth squad including Dixy Lee Ray, Robert Balling and Lynn
Scarlett to rebut Vice President Gore's environmental tract Earth in the Balance. They tackle all the key issues,
including why private property rights are absolutely essential
for protecting the environment and why prosperous market economies
are better for the environment than bureaucrats.
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Broken Trust,
Broken Land: Freeing Ourselves from the War Over the Environment
by Robert G. Lee.
This book looks at the fact that Americans
are exchanging their freedom for environmental security.
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Science Under
Siege: Balancing Technoloy and the Environment
by Michael Fumento.
Well documented and thoroughly researched
book exposing the many environxmental exaggerations in the
media. The first chapter is all about the ALAR scam.
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Animal Scam: The Beastly Abuse
of Human Rights
by Kathleen Marquardt.
This is an excellent book investigating
the animal rights movement in detail. Animal rights and animal
welfare are two very different things.
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Eco-Sanity:
A Common-sense Guide to Environmentalism
by Joseph Bast, Peter Hill, and Richard Rue.
The authors of
this thought provoking book show justification that the environmental
movement has become a victim of its own success. The challenge
of the eco-movement to get rid of their "crisis-of-the-month"
strategy and to adopt new strategies that utilize common sense
and real critical thinking.
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The Greening
by Larry Abraham
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Toxic Terror
by Elizabeth Whelan
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The Apocalyptics
by Edith Efron
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Set Up and Sold Out
by Holly Swanson.
Midwest Book Review
There are many connections between the Green movement and
Communist forces: this outlines these connections, examining
changing American values, Green influences, and Communist
party lines with an eye to revealing possible Communist connections
within the Green party realm. A thought-provoking book.
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The Health of Nations: True
Causes of Sickness and Well-Being
by Joesph Bast, Pert Hill and Richard Rue
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Bionomics
by Michael Rothschild.
Ingram.
Hailed as a landmark account of how we organize ourselves
for work, this wise, experience-tested book looks to nature
as the model for how things work in the modern business world.
Rothschild's anecdote-rich text challenges traditional thinking
with a fresh vision of economics as a self-organizing system
that is as natural as life itself. --This text refers to an
out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The Right Data
by Edwin Rubenstein.
This is a layman's reference book giving
key information on the economic issues that affect us all-taxes,
health care reform, welfare, government spending.
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