Environmental Gore: A Constructive Response to Earth in Balance [Hardcover]

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ISBN-10: 0936488786 | ISBN-13: 978-0936488783 | Publication Date: January 25, 1994

Lively, controversial discussion of Vice President Gore's approach offers suggestions and real-world solutions in the ecology vs. economy debate.

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From Library Journal

This collection of essays purports to offer an alternative vision of the state of the global environment to that presented by Vice President Al Gore in his best-selling Earth in the Balance (LJ 1/92), but in large part the book fails to deliver on its promise. Inevitably with a collection of this nature, the constituent essays are of uneven quality. The strongest entries focus on the economics of Gore's solutions and offer market-based alternatives. The contributions by Robert Hahn (American Enterprise Institute) and Gus di Zerega (Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment) are noteworthy, with di Zerega's easily the most provocative in the book. Many of the other essays offer weak, unsubstantiated attacks on Gore's work and make the entire book much less than the sum of its parts. For most libraries, this will be a marginal purchase.
Randy Dykhuis, OCLC, Dublin, Ohio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 270 pages
• Publisher: Pacific Research Institute (January 25, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0936488786
• ISBN-13: 978-0936488783
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,290,106 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A look at Environmentalism with scientific facts., May 25, 1999

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This review is from: Environmental Gore: A Constructive Response to Earth in Balance (Hardcover)

Finally, a book about environmental issues written by scientists! I like to base my opinions on facts, and this book gave me the facts needed to develop an informed opinion about some of today's environmental issues. Everyone should read this book.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent., November 30, 2007

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This review is from: Environmental Gore: A Constructive Response to Earth in Balance (Hardcover)

No such thing as a perfect book, but this one is VERY good. Wanders a bit, as it has more than a few contributors. History of the so-called (and mythical) `consensus', analysis of Gore's work that can almost be as painful to read as Gore's work itself, but on the whole, well worth having.

5 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Propaganda riddled with holes, April 9, 1999

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This review is from: Environmental Gore: A Constructive Response to Earth in Balance (Hardcover)

Writting a book based upon exagerated assumptions, Al Gore humiliating enviormentalist, such as myself, making us appears as deranged uneducated alarmists. He states that: "The most lasting impact of biotechnology on the food supply may come not from something going wrong, but from all going right...we're far more likely to accidentally drown ourselves in a sea of excess grain."

Someone must whack Al Gore back to reality and ask: The World population expected to double in 20 yrs, how else can we support so many people?