Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense? [Hardcover]

Dixie Lee Ray (Author), Lou Guzzo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 1993

...challenges the environmental prophets of doom and gloom with penetrating searing truth. Environmental Overkill is a bright light that exposes the fraud and deceit being perpetrated against an unknowing public. --Rush Limbaugh

Product Details

• Hardcover: 260 pages
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.; First edition. edition (March 15, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895265125
• ISBN-13: 978-0895265128
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,258,765 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intellectual Honesty, August 21, 2000

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Peter V. Giansante (Far Point Station) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense? (Hardcover)

If you have the courage to test your own intellectual honesty, you'll find great value in Dr. Ray's "Environmental Overkill". As a working environmental scientist, I have over 15 years of practical experience with the regulatory infrastructure, the nature of the problems it attempts to control, and the hopelessly irrelevant (at best) or absolutely destructive (at worst) effects of political environmentalism. If one is willing to concede that the environmentalists' fundamental assertion is true - that technology & economic development cause the environmental problems we face today - the logical conclusion would be that a more conscientious, more responsible, more enlightened, more humane approach to technological and economic development marks the path toward the solutions to those problems.

Dr. Ray exposes the hard truth that the agenda and goals of political environmentalism are antithetical to conscientiousness, responsibility, enlightenment, or humanity. Their agenda and goals are manifest of the most primitive recidivism since the Medieval Inquisition. Dr. Ray's documentation is robust to the point of incontestibility. The easily accessible corroborative proof in her references clearly shows that political environmentalism provides civilizational benefits equivalent to those of witchcraft, only with less emphasis on rationality. That's precisely why Dr. Ray's book is so powerfully irrefutable, despite another reviewer's assertions that her sources are not credible. A significant percentage of Dr. Ray's references come from sources whose presumed credibility he does not care to challenge: the political environmentalists themselves. The reason why Dr. Ray's book is so devastatingly effective in revealing the fraud of political environmentalism is that she lets its spokespersons destroy their own credibility. She simply quotes their fully documented fraudulent assertions, presents the controverting evidence, and lets the reader reach the overwhelmingly obvious conclusions. Don't take my word for it; read the book and draw your own conclusions.

That is, unless your beliefs about the environment are emotion-based, and you'd prefer not to see that truth.

34 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A logical antidote to environmentalist demagogery, October 1, 1999

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Taiji 218 (The Frozen North) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense? (Paperback)

It's too bad this book is presently out of stock, because it's needed now just as much as when it first came out. In a well-worded, step by step logical fashion, Ms. Ray smashes the demagogues of the environmentalist movement by exposing the facts behind the scare-story headlines that scream that we are destroying the earth and that the only solution to environmental disaster is to return to the horse and buggy days with a dramatically reduced population. An earlier reviewer of this book, [e-mail] is full of nonsense when he slams the book through association. In checking the hundreds of references Ms Ray includes to back up her assertions, there are only a tiny handfull that come out of the New American or some other politically incorrect magazine. Most of her references are from sources such as CNN, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and a number of professional trade publications and scientific journals. Try to buy this book used. It will be worth the effort.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required reading for all Americans., February 25, 2001

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Karla Flippin (L.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Environmental Overkill (Audio Cassette)

Dixy Lee Ray, former head of the Atomic Energy Commision, writes the scientific facts to counter environmentalism. The truth about who is behind Earth Day, how your aerosol cans are really affecting the ozone layer, how much oil seeps out of the earth and into the ocean every day. The earth is not fragile. Mt. St. Helens erupted with the force of 500 atomic bombs, and spewed 220,000 metric tons of sulfur dioxide, aerosols and other gases 15 miles into the stratosphere! She explains that man has little effect on this earth, but environmentalists use natural occuring changes as fuel to tax us to death. Just follow the money.