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

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

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Author: Iain Murray
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-04-22
ISBN: 1596980540
Number of pages: 354
Publisher: Regnery Publishing

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Book Review: Skewers the paradigms of the liberal environmental fascist movement
Summary: 5 Stars

Iain Murray well-written book skewers the fundamental principles of the radical left environmental movement, and does it very artfully. Clearly, this is a compelling book which mastefully states the case of the failures of the environmental movement, and their `liberal fascistic" approach to society.

Murray shows at the very beginning that the environmental movement focuses on (1) identifying a cause and laws requiring immediate passage, (2) creating an apocalyptic scenario, (3) claiming a threat to children, (4) donning the mantle of science while dismissing any (and all) scientific evidence that contradicts their position (and cause), (5) creating a clamor that rules the debate, and (6) defending ruthlessly all measures. Basically the movement is no different than leninism, communism, and nazi-ism for openers. It is the blue print for totalitarianism and I concur with Murray that totalitarian control is the goal of the environmental movement.

The following quote caught my eye as a scientist (geology) and as a former state Sea Grant director. "In a world of increasingly devoid of moral authority, the supposed impartiality of science provides a seemingly objective source of authority" (P. 51-52). That authority is a major threat to the environmental movement.

In my experience, the principles and methodology of science have been under attack from several quarters during the past 25 years. In Europe, university scientists who attain the rank of "professor" are asked, now-a-days, to spend their time serving on government panels so "science has a seat at the table". It means time away from teaching and research. Classes are taught by junior faculty with the "professor" making what are tantamount to guest appearances in classes in his/her area of expertise. More and more of their research is handled by graduate students with minimal supervision. Meanwhile, others at "the table" in these government panels also have demands and thus place science in the untenable position of moving from its impartiality (It's called conflict of interest).

I saw this first hand as a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow at the Vrije University of Amsterdam in 1989. Since then, it has only gotten worse.

As a state Sea Grant director, I observed some of this first hand also. Scientific FACTS were denigrated by environmental activists because they were inconvenient and stood in the way of achieving environmental goals. Those goals normally did not consider the consequences of their actions including economic consequences for the working class and the working poor. Hence the affluence, elitism, and racism of this movement. One rarely saw minorities or working class people at meetings called or promoted by environmental activists, for instance.

Murray's book is replete with examples of environmentalism gone wrong that illustrate this point persuasively. The banning of DDT has caused a devastating INCREASE of malaria in Africa (a form of environmental racism?). The current mandates to manufacture ethanol has had severe consequences for the global food supply. The development of certain pharmaceuticals, including birth control pills, has lead to deformities in fish as these pharmaceuticals are excreted from the human body into waste water discharge points where fish habitats occur. The misplaced protection of some "endangered species" has hurt economic development and progress when studies show many of these species were hardly threatened (but some were; however, no retraction of the endangered species from the list of protected animals was implemented after their populations were restored to well above acceptable levels).

So what's in store if the environmental movement takes over? Just visit the Aral Sea in the Former Soviet Union. This is a classic case of central environmental planning going from worse to disastrous. This chapter should be required reading for all citizens.

The bottom line of consequences was well stated by Murray. He stated "Liberal environmentalism, with its focus on box-checking rules, preference for words over substance, and its obsession with punishment of the guilty, has on too many occasions failed to prevent environmental damage, and in the meantime has harmed the economy and the humans whose well-being the economy represents" (p. 296). That, in a nutshell, is what the environmental movement has wrought. We should be grateful to Murray for stating it so eloquently.

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