Title:
The really inconvenient truths : seven environmental catastrophes liberals don't want you to know about-- because they helped cause them
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ISBN:
9781596980549
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Regnery Pub., c2008.
Physical Description:
xi, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Al Gore is bad for the planet -- Al Gore : savior of the planet? -- Malaria : the plague of environmentalists -- Ethanol : save the planet, starve the world -- Blind faith in the green god -- Ecopaganism -- The pill as pollutant : and other environmental menaces the left ignores -- Yellowstone in flames : the dangers of liberal dogma -- The best laid plans -- The green lobby -- Cuyahoga burning : how progressives set a river on fire -- Endangered species act : shoot, shovel, and shut up -- Communism's environmental record : the death of the Aral Sea -- The promise of stewardship : the conservative answer for the environment.
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Summary:
Iain Murray, a conservative environmental analyst with a long record of skewering liberal hypocrisy, has dug up seven of the all-time great environmental catastrophes caused by the Left and exposed them in The Really Inconvenient Truths. Murray lays bare: how ethanol, the liberals' favorite fuel, is destroying the world's rainforests--and could cause global food shortages; how Al Gore's hero Rachel Carson cost the lives of millions of Africans through her efforts to ban DDT; how the environmentalists have covered up the polluting effects of contraceptive and chemical abortion drugs; how the Endangered Species Act actually endangers species; and, finally, how Gore's vision of greater state control over the economy has already produced some of the greatest environmental disasters in history--Publisher.
